Goodreads asked M.E. Wright:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

M.E. Wright Interesting question. I grew up with the mantra of 'my body, my decision' because I had the right to make my own decisions about my body. After all, abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973.

As I grew up, though, that right to bodily autonomy was systematically eroded. SCOTUS agreed that the anti-abortion protesters had a right to block access to clinics, even if abortion was not performed at that location. In 1992, SCOTUS issued the Planned Parenthood v Casey ruling. This created an “undue burden” framework, making it more difficult to challenge laws that were less than absolute prohibitions on abortion.

By 2007, the high court allowed Congress to ban specific second-trimester abortion procedures, even if this would protect a woman's health. And in 2020, the state of Texas implemented a six-week abortion ban, a time before many people even know they were pregnant.

But what was missing from the national conversation was something simple: If conservatives were so interested in the health and well-being of an unborn child, what were they willing to do about the men who had caused the pregnancy? And, what would they do if given the opportunity?

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