Amy Littlefield

Author of Killers of Roe, out now wherever books are sold!
Abortion access correspondent at The Nation

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent promise in a private call with anti-abortion activists to institute nationwide abortion restrictions has raised alarm among reproductive rights advocates. @amylittlefield explains what we know.

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"For someone that wants to be the chief law enforcement official in the United States, his words do not make a lot of legal sense."

@amylittlefield joins @democracynow to talk about the reproductive rights in the United States.

via #StudiGo mobile studio

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Journalist and author @amylittlefield is in THE BACK ROOM discussing her latest book Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights https://t.co/LMaJkEF9sN

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“It’s hard to sound the alarm about an emergency that takes place in such slow stages. That was part of the genius of the anti-abortion movement’s strategy.” —an interview with @amylittlefield https://t.co/XQ29192E7n

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Roe v. Wade is dead, but who was the murderer? In this final episode of Season 5, Kim and @BrunacheRose sit down with journalist @amylittlefield, author of the new book Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion.

Listen now: https://t.co/6hnPgZqSYA

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A federal appeals court decision limited access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. “The abortion rights movement is far more prepared for a catastrophic decision like this” than it was when Roe v. Wade was overturned four years ago, says The Nation’s abortion access correspondent @amylittlefield. She says telehealth providers are “pivoting to a misoprostol-only protocol.” Misoprostol is another common abortion pill often used in combination with mifepristone.

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Co-founder & co-executive director, feyla mcnamara, had the opportunity attend the reading & book signing for @AmyLittlefield 's incredible "Killers of Roe"- a detailed delve into the history of "who dunnit?" in the dismantling of Roe v. Wade.
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The decades-long plot against abortion rights had many fathers, who were largely lost to history until now, writes @CYBingham reviewing @amylittlefield's new book, "Killers of Roe."

https://t.co/xkZyBQocS5

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"People on the ground are making a more just world for all of us" – @amylittlefield on the grassroots abortion rights movement – in "Killers of Roe" – and on @thenation podcast https://t.co/1Vvm1Uvy93 @GrandCentralPub

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Grassroots Abortion Rights: "Community activists are circulating these pills in huge numbers that are not even being counted by anyone" – @amylittlefield on expanded abortion access since the Dobbs decision in 2022 – on @thenation podcast https://t.co/1Vvm1Uv0jv @GrandCentralPub

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How revoking the constitutional right to abortion has expanded access to it – @AmyLittlefield explains in her new book "Killers of Roe" – and on @thenation podcast https://t.co/1Vvm1Uvy93 @GrandCentralPub

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🚨 TODAY, join KILLERS OF ROE author @amylittlefield in conversation with writer, comedian, and "professor at bimbo university" @nikitadumptruck for an Instagram Live this afternoon at 2 PM EST discussing the book.

Watch and follow https://t.co/Rlm6yKMols

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“To me, the story of Dobbs is these conflicting narratives,” Carol Joffe tells @amylittlefield. “Improved abortion access for some, and a horrible situation for others.” https://t.co/UKn0iDYr8I

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Who are the "Killers of Roe"? Journalist @amylittlefield's new book investigates how the anti-abortion movement worked for decades to undermine reproductive rights in the United States.

https://t.co/9DBIAYdIs7

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“Never in modern history have wealth and location been less decisive in whether someone can get an abortion in the US,” writes @amylittlefield. But now people must weigh their tolerance for “legal risk, isolation, and uncertainty.” https://t.co/d82ICwyXw6

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Coming up on The Dean Obeidallah Show:

@JoeSudbay guest hosts!

Joining him is @MSignorile, Dani Cook, @amylittlefield, and @jeffhauser, exec. director of @revolvingdoorDC!

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Murder on the Abortion Express, by @ajkeen https://t.co/tXJIcwpuSq
@amylittlefield
“They all did it. They’re all guilty.” — Amy Littlefield

Who killed Roe? Amy Littlefield, the abortion access correspondent at The Nation and big time Agatha Christie fan, has written a true crime book about it. Literally. Killers of Roe treats the death of the constitutional right to abortion as a murder mystery in the Poirot or Miss Marple tradition, complete with suspects, motives, and a forensic reconstruction of the 50-year crime scene. The suspects have Christie-style names: the Racist (Jesse Helms), the Little Brother (James Buckley), the Devout Bureaucrat (Paul Herring), the Closeted Congressman (Bob Bauman), and of course Mr Hyde Amendment himself, Henry Hyde — six foot three, helmet of white hair, serial groper of women who ensured poor women lost access first.

The Hyde Amendment is where the crime begins: 1976, a ban on federal funding of abortion. If you’re poor, the Supreme Court ruled, that’s your problem. The constitutional right exists, but don’t expect anyone to pay for it. Surprise surprise. Black women, low-income women, women on Medicaid understood immediately. Democrats and mainstream pro-choice groups took longer to notice. By which time the damage was done — and the playbook established: chip away at access rather than try to ban it outright.

Littlefield is more Miss Marple than Poirot — unassuming, persistent, sitting with her suspects for hours until they tell her why they did it. The devout bureaucrat, Paul Herring, spent their interviews trying to convert her to Catholicism. Henry Hyde made a pass at the president of Planned Parenthood during a commercial break on the Phil Donahue show. Bob Bauman — closeted, adopted, alcoholic — confessed to her that his anti-abortion politics may have come from identifying with the unwanted fetus, because that could have been him. These are complicated people doing terrible things for reasons they believe are righteous.

And the ending? Littlefield steals it from Murder on the Orient Express. They all did it. Every suspect is guilty — including the Democrats who failed to defend poor women, and the pro-choice movement that didn’t fight hard enough for the most vulnerable. Since the Dobbs decision in 2022: 59 excess pregnancy-associated deaths, 500 additional infant deaths, 22,000 additional births. The numbers aren’t a Miss Marple mystery. The crime is ongoing. And Trump, who declared himself “very pro-choice” before he appointed the justices who drove the final nail in, is the ultimate opportunist — the Jekyll to Mr Hyde. Murder on the Abortion Express. They all did it. All the men, at least.

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Amy Littlefield (@amylittlefield) on the complex state of abortion access, which is expanding and contracting at the same time
https://t.co/kmopjOdqNs

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Happy Pub Day to KILLERS OF ROE by @amylittlefield! 🥳

This whodunit offers "a vital glimpse into the hidden machinery of power, politics, and abortion." says @JessicaValenti, New York Times bestselling author of 'Abortion.' Order KILLERS OF ROE at https://t.co/EZFj67OY0d

[Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield]

Thank you so much!!

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Got mine today! It is, oddly, a fun and quirky book. And incredibly insightful. Thank you, @amylittlefield