The Family Roe | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

In Amicus’ summer series of conversations about books that expanded our thinking about justice and the courts, beyond the churn of headlines, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joshua Prager to discuss his book The Family Roe: An American Story, about the unknown lives at the heart of Roe v Wade.
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[fridajaspers]

(From UK) This was such a riveting story to listen to: Thank you. The stories of all those women. Thank you for high-lighting them all.

[j.n.sloane]

Interesting conversation. Thank you. We need to have more fleshed out, honest conversations about the complexities of this very basic human action.

[nattyw]

This was a great interview, abortion of course is a hardship whether is monetary or life status..but ultimately it comes down to 52% of americans now are considered second class citizens due to not having rights over their iwn body..adoption is a money making for certain groups onto of america has the worst maternal deaths..and we have a great oppurtiny to get to have better laws..i do not see many politicals helping pass universal healthcare prek free collge, and gun safety, all i see its gop politicals denying free school breakfast free lunches defunding public schools and ridding schools of librarians and libraries, andrepealing child safety laws..