The inside story of what led to the end of Roe v. Wade

This month marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, reproductive rights and restrictions have splintered across 50 states.

A pair of journalists spent the last couple of years doing an investigation looking back over the past decade to the lead-up to the Dobbs decision. They found an entire ecosystem of interconnected activists, policymakers, funders and lawmakers pushing to end access to legal abortion.

Lisa Lerer, political correspondent for the New York Times, and Elizabeth Dias, religion correspondent for the New York Times, document their findings in a new book called “The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America.” Host Asma Khalid talks with Lerer and Dias.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.