With expertise across politics and religion, two award-winning New York Times journalists show how the battle over Roe, no matter your view on abortion, symbolizes a miscarriage of the ideals America promised: democracy, morality and freedom, while inadvertently laying out a roadmap for how we might make our way forward in this new America. From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and the consequences for women, abortion, and the future of America. In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. Then, suddenly, it was gone. In their groundbreaking book The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer reveal the explosive inside story of how it happened. Their investigation charts the shocking political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself. Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory -- and motivated by a spiritual mission -- a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.

Preface -- Part I: The righteous right, 2013-2015. June 2022: Cincinnati, Ohio -- The autopsy -- Joan of Arc -- A conversion story -- Her mother's Texas -- Teaching the men -- The pendulum -- The radical post-Roe generation -- The symbol of Sanger -- The hearing -- Part II: The political war, 2016-2017. June 2022: Cincinnati, Ohio -- Titans and saints -- The list -- Hillary -- The oddest couple -- "Grab 'em by the pussy" -- The new giants -- Stacking the administration -- The left's denial -- Purging "pro-life" from the party -- Jane Doe -- Part III: The chessboard, 2018-2020. June 2022: Sioux Falls, South Dakota -- Exactly fifteen weeks -- The pick -- The war over Wen -- Gaming the courts -- The thread -- Mississippi womanhood -- The days of awe -- The coup -- Part IV: The fate of the nation, 2021-2023. June 2022: Jackson, Mississippi -- The brief -- Texan revenge -- The argument -- Disbelief -- The leak -- The obituary -- The heart of it all -- After Dobbs -- What is a woman? -- March 2023: Las Cruces, New Mexico.