Professor Ziegler Talks to NPR About Alabama Abortion Law and Crossing State Lines

Professor Mary Ziegler appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered on April 1 to discuss federal judge Myron Thompson’s ruling that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall cannot prosecute groups that help Alabama residents travel to other states to obtain abortions.

Ziegler told reporter Drew Hawkins the case potentially could end up in the Supreme Court.

“We're just seeing kind of a multiplying of conflicts where we know we have unanswered questions about the meaning of the First Amendment in this context, about the right to travel in this context, about due process in this context, about these sort of clashing state laws and choosing which one applies.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Mary Ziegler is an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conservatism in the United States from 1945 to the present. Her book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction (Yale University Press) will be released April 22.