a right with other red states. including a lot of misery that prohibits pregnant women from getting a divorce. michelle goodwin, chancellor professor of law at the university of california, and the author of policing the womb, invisible women of the criminalization of motherhood. also joining us, legal historian and law professor mary ziegler, she is the author of the new book dollars for life, the anti-abortion movement and the fall of the republican establishment. thank you both very much for coming in tonight. professor goodwin, i will start with you. this missouri law seems to ignore circumstances republicans don t want to see like, an abusive marriage or pregnancy within a marriage that might have might not have been consensual, no? that s right and they took for granted slights legal scholars who supported and wrote about marital rape as being nonexistent because a woman is
this notion that the president who had a sworn duty to uphold the constitution and to take due care, that he did nothing while the capital was under attack. joyce vance, harry lippman, thank you for joining us tonight. thanks jonathan. coming up, republicans have shown a brutal creativity and policies and laws to police groups they don t like, including women who want to retain control of their own bodies. after the dumps decision, pro trumps to get around those laws. professors michelle goodwin and mary ziegler will join us on that, next.
we look for the final icing on the cake. this notion that the president who had a sworn duty to uphold the constitution and to take due care, that he did nothing while the capital was under attack. joyce vance, harry lippman, thank you for joining us tonight. thanks jonathan. coming up, republicans have shown a brutal creativity and policies and laws to police groups they don t like, including women who want to retain control of their own bodies. after the dumps decision, to get around those laws. professors michelle goodwin and mary ziegler will join us on that, next. mary ziegler will that, next
the property of her husband and therefore is one with him, and a man cannot rape himself. rape laws stood in the united states up and still a few decades ago, a man could rape his wife and not be punished for it. the same case for incensed, men were able to defend themselves against incest because for a father to be punished under such committing such horrendous crimes, it would create disharmony in his household. so the absurdity of all of this you are so absolutely right. and what s so tragic about it is that it has been built, and baked in to american law, and even most recently, given support in the courts decision in at least, by the, way justice alito cites these arcane lawyers who supported these arcane principles, barbaric principles. professor ziegler, here s
therefore is one with him, and a man cannot rape himself. marital rape laws stood in the united states up and still a few decades ago, a man could rape his wife and not be punished for it. the same case for incest, men were able to defend themselves against incest because for a father to be punished under such for committing such horrendous crimes, it would create disharmony in his household. so the absurdity of all of this, you are so absolutely right. and what s so tragic about it is that it has been built in, baked in to american law, and even most recently, given support in the courts decision in at least, by the, way justice alito cites these arcane lawyers who supported these arcane principles, barbaric principles. professor ziegler, here s the irony of ironies, according to a missouri lawyer quoted in