Books by Mary Ziegler

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party

Roe's privacy rationale inspired left-leaning movements unrelated to abortion around sexual orientation, class, gender, race, disability, and patient rights. But groups on the right used it as well, to attack government involvement in American life. Mary Ziegler's analysis shows that privacy belongs to no party or cause.

In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that Roe v. Wade was a ruling on a woman's right to choose. Mary Ziegler's account offers a corrective.