Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice

Walter H. Capps Center (Audio) by UCTV

Apr 29, 202500:44:01Education

What’s next for the battle over abortion? In this lecture, Mary Ziegler argues that undoing Roe v. Wade was never the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the goal has been to secure recognition of fe...

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