Killers Of Roe – Amy Littlefield

What kind of person, I wondered, chose this time of year to visit a museum dedicated to a man who ran his first campaign for governor in 1966 after coming out against fair housing and the Civil Rights Act,1 praised the formerly segregated Bob Jones University as a “great institution” when it still had an interracial dating ban,2 promoted the sole holdout in the Supreme Court decision against Bob Jones University’s tax- exempt status to chief justice, called African delegates to the United Nations “monkeys,” used the racist stereotype of the “welfare queen” to distort how we think about Black and poor women forever, and alienated Black people to such an extent that he won only 9 percent of African American voters upon his second election in 1984?3 Who else was here in hell, besides a feminist reporter trying to force herself to take deep breaths in case there was a special room for Commie sympathizers?

The answer was: A lot of people. The place felt packed, even by the standards of an institution that, at least before the pandemic, saw up to 1,500 visitors on an average day. Parents had brought their kids to see the “Star Wars” exhibit—a mash-up of memorabilia from the movies and Reagan’s nuclear missile defense system. Tourists were getting their pictures taken outside the 1980s-era Air Force One with its startling military aide mannequin. But as I was about to discover, plenty of people came because they just loved Reagan.

The Reagan Museum was the most frequently visited presidential library in the country, a docent wearing a watch with Reagan’s face on it who called herself a “Reagan groupie” told me as I contemplated hurling myself off the hillside. These days everyone seemed to be a Reagan groupie. Liberal Democrats like my parents longed for the normalcy of a time when the gutting of the federal government was at least done with a degree of respect for due process.

Even the process-smasher-in-chief, Donald Trump, had co-opted the late president’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and favorably compared his position on abortion to Reagan’s in 2024. In fact, when you looked at the forces behind Trump’s reelection, Reagan turned out to be the man behind the curtain. The notorious Project 2025 blueprint for Trump’s second term, written by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, mentioned the word “Reagan” seventy times.4 Three of its coauthors were Reagan administration veterans.

The foreword explained that this plan to dismantle much of the federal government and ban abortion nationwide was modeled on the inaugural “Mandate for Leadership” presented to Reagan, who, it boasted, turned more than 60 percent of its recommendations into policy in the next year.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. ISBNs: 9781538769041 (hardcover), 9781538769065 (ebook) E3-20260108-JV-NF-ORI OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction PART 1: THE FIRST DEATH OF ROSIE JIMENEZ Chapter 1: The Believer Chapter 2: The Man Who Wasn’t Named Chapter 3: The Serial Kisser PART 2: THE SECOND DEATH OF ROSIE JIMENEZ Chapter 4: The Listener Chapter 5: The Accomplices PART 3: THE DEATH OF BECKY BELL Chapter 6: The Salesman Chapter 7: The Actor Chapter 8: The Polite Killer and the Perfect Victim PART 4: DEATHS IN THE NAME OF LIFE Chapter 9: The Ringmaster Chapter 10: The Fetus Keeper and the Felons PART 5: DEATHS BY ABORTION BAN Chapter 11: The Renegades Chapter 12: The Goofy Bastard Chapter 13: All the Killers Who Were Never Caught Chapter 14: The First Victim Acknowledgments Discover More Notes Praise for Killers of Roe OceanofPDF.com For those who have died from abortion restrictions—the few whose names we know and the rest whose names we do not.

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