| | As we face the prospect of a post-Roe future, I wondered how we got here. Journalist Joshua Prager, who spent 11 years dissecting the case, discusses the 50-year battle over abortion rights and the strategic decisions that led us to this point. The Washington Post speaks to people who remember what life was like before the landmark decision. And abortion was so "deeply rooted" in colonial America that Ben Franklin went out of his way to insert it into the era's most widely read math textbook. — Mia Quagliarello, Head of Creator Community and Newsletters | |