The Anti-abortion Movement’s New Distrust of Democracy
“It was never going to be the case that if voters wanted abortion to be legal, the movement would be comfortable with that,” Mary Ziegler says.
by Kelli María Korducki
Oct 12, 2022
4 minutes
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In a recent Atlantic essay, the professor and legal historian Mary Ziegler wrote about the anti-abortion movement’s erosion of faith in democracy. As Americans prepare to vote in the first major election since Roe v. Wade was overturned, I spoke with Ziegler about what happens next.
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Democracy as an Obstacle
: You that the anti-abortion movement is at a crossroads, one where “democracy is either
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