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Mary Ziegler

About Mary Ziegler

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Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC Davis, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the law and history of the US abortion debate. She is the author of four books on reproduction and the law, including Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v Wade to the Present (2020) and the award-winning After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (2015). Her newest book is Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (2022). Mary’s expertise is often featured on leading media outlets around the world, including CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Economist, Bloomberg, and the Washington Post.