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Today\u2019s\xa0Postscript\xa0(a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) engages the latest chapter in American abortion politics as the United States Supreme Court has just allowed a Texas statute banning abortions after 6 weeks to go into effect. Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell have assembled a panel of experts in political science and law to interrogate the construction of the Texas law, the Supreme Court ruling, and how these cases map onto the wider political landscape.\nDr. Ren\xe9e\xa0Ann\xa0Cramer\xa0is a Professor of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University -- and the author of\xa0Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care\xa0from Stanford University Press, 2021.\nDr. Rebecca Kreitzer\xa0is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- and the author of some of the most downloaded articles in political science on the policy environment in which abortion laws are passed. Her most recent work,\xa0\u201cAnti-Abortion Policymaking and Women\u2019s Representation\u201d\xa0(co-authored with Reingold, Beth, Tracy L. Osborn, and Michele Swers) appears in Political Research Quarterly.\nDr. Andrew R. Lewis\xa0is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati and the author of\xa0The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars\xa0(Cambridge, 2017). He writes at the intersection of politics, religion, and law in America with expertise in Evangelicals and politics, conservative legal activism, and rights politics.\nDr. Joshua C. Wilson\xa0is Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver -- and the . author of\xa0The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, & America\u2019s Culture Wars\xa0and\xa0The New States of Abortion Politics\xa0both from\xa0Stanford University Press 2013 and 2016. His article \u201cStriving to Rollback or Protect Roe: State Legislation and the Trump-Era Politics of Abortion appeared in Publius last summer.\nDr. Mary Ziegler\xa0is a Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law. She is the author of\xa0Abortion and the Law in America: A Legal History,\xa0Roe v. Wade\xa0to the Present\xa0(Cambridge University Press, 2020) and has a forthcoming book\xa0Dollars for Life: The Antiabortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment expected from Yale University Press, 2022).\nDaniella Campos assisted with this podcast.\nSusan Liebell\xa0is Dirk Warren '50 Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph\u2019s University in Philadelphia.\xa0Lilly J. Goren\xa0is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies