The Fall of Roe By Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer
- Narrated by: Lipica Shah
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
The Fall of Roe By Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer AudioBook summary
“The most important book in the lead up to this election.”—Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC
“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.”—New York magazine
“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.”—Alex Wagner on AlexWagner Tonight
This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors, moderated by narrator Lipica Shah.
From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and the consequences for women, abortion, and the future of America
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation’s landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was synonymous with women’s rights and freedoms. Then, suddenly, it was gone.
In their groundbreaking book The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer reveal the explosive inside story of how it happened. Their investigation charts the shocking political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself.
Reeling from Barack Obama’s 2012 landslide presidential victory–and motivated by a spiritual mission–a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.
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