Professor Mary Ziegler was kind enough to join me for a discussion about Florida’s new “Heartbeat Protection Act,” which, if it goes into effect, will ban abortion after 6 weeks and subject abortion providers to a felony conviction punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Professor Ziegler also explains how the law could expose a person other than an abortion provider to a felony conviction. She goes on to describe the push by the anti-choice movement for “fetal personhood” and what history tells us about the concept.
Professor Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law and a nationally recognized expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The Atlantic, PBS News Hour, CNN, and the Washington Post. Professor Ziegler has authored several books and countless articles. Her most recent book, published in 2020, is titled “Abortion and the Law in America – Roe v. Wade to the Present.” Professor Ziegler was recently named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. The fellowship will allow her work on her forthcoming book, “Personhood: The New American Fight Over Equality and Reproduction.”
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