The Modern American Anti-Abortion Movement

Today public support for Roe V Wade, (the supreme court case legalizing abortion) is higher than at any other point in American History. Although puzzlingly the scope of a women’s right to an abortion has consistently been limited. In 2019 alone 15 states attempted to ban abortion after six weeks, which essentially makes it impossible to obtain an abortion. How is it that a women’s constitutional right to abortion is increasingly supported, but at the same time increasingly difficult to obtain? One dominant factor in this is the work of the anti-abortion movement.