Abortion activists must learn to lose well

Lessons from the fight for same-sex marriage.

Mar 26, 2022

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Sasha Issenberg is the author of “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage,” out in paperback this May.

In right-leaning state capitals, it is as though Roe v. Wade is already gone. Anticipating that the Supreme Court will soon limit if not eliminate the half-century-old constitutional right to an abortion, legislators ar…

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Sasha Issenberg

Sasha Issenberg is the author of four books, most recently "The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage." He is the Washington correspondent for Monocle and teaches in the political science department at UCLA.