Striving to Rollback or Protect Roe: State Legislation and the Trump-era Politics of Abortion

@article{Wilson2020StrivingTR,
  title={Striving to Rollback or Protect Roe: State Legislation and the Trump-era Politics of Abortion},
  author={Joshua C. Wilson},
  journal={Publius: The Journal of Federalism},
  year={2020}
}
  • Joshua C. Wilson
  • Published 1 July 2020
  • Political Science
  • Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Abortion’s centrality to the Christian Right, together with that movement’s importance to Republican Party politics, as well as the policy realities of abortion, have all combined to make regulating abortion a fixture within U.S. state politics for decades. While the levels and forms of state activity have varied since the 1980s, the Trump presidency has produced strategic changes in the content and perceived importance of abortion policy. Notably, recent changes in the state politics of… 
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