As you read the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, you might have asked yourself, How did we get here?

As per The Cut, Mary Ziegler, a legal historian and law professor at the University of California, Davis’s School of Law, answers that question with an in-depth account of the legal landscape that evolved after Roe was decided in 1973. Her book traces the fault lines of the abortion debate and explains how the right got to the precipice of toppling a 50-year-old precedent.

There is also ‘The Family Roe’. The woman at the heart of Roe v. Wade — Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. Jane Roe — never actually had an abortion. In his extraordinary book, Joshua Prager uses more than a decade of reporting to paint an intimate, in-depth picture of McCorvey’s maddeningly complex life, her activism for and then against abortion, and the characters that used her — and whom she used right back.