Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters. By David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 256p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

Abstract

these provisions, securing a profound victory for the antiabortion movement. As Ziegler explains, the antiabortion movement successfully built a war chest of financial and intellectual resources that saw its power and potential not in rushing to overturn Roe and overthrow whatever remained of a reproductive rights movement post–Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Instead, it gained important ground by organizing and strategizing in ways that feminist movements largely abandoned after Roe. Newly branded targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws), such as burdensome facility regulations, hospital admitting privilege requirements, mandates associated with the disposal of fetal remains, limits on telemedicine, ambulatory surgical center requirements, vaginal ultrasounds, and waiting periods that extend beyond 48 and 72 hours including weekends, are part of the new arsenal. Ziegler’s already weighty account leaves the reader desirous for more of her analysis and insights, including assessing the role of white supremacy in the modern era of antiabortion movements and learning how race-based tropes may be the next level of strategizing. For this, we must await her next book.