Kcbs In Depth

January 22nd will mark the 51st anniversary of Roe vs Wade… where the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in favor of "Jane Roe" in 1973... saying that women in the United States had a fundamental right to choose whether to have abortions without excessive government restriction… But all that changed in 2022… with the overturning of Roe vs Wade… declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists… Now, the conversation about reproductive rights is being had on all levels… federally, in every state… and on the political stage as well... 2024 could be a determining year for where the abortion… and anti-abortion… movements will go next… and to help us take a closer look at those possible paths… both legally and politically… we turn to MARY ZIEGLER, Martin Luther King Jr Professor of law at UC Davis… and author of several books on the social movement struggles around reproduction, autonomy, and the law…