Revealed: Ginni Thomas’s links to anti-abortion groups who lobbied to overturn Roe

Analysis of amicus briefs' shows how closely Clarence Thomas's wife was entwined with rightwing effort to reverse 1973 ruling

Ginni Thomas, the self-styled culture warrior" and extreme rightwing activist, has links to more than half of the anti-abortion groups and individuals who lobbied her husband Clarence Thomas and his fellow US supreme court justices ahead of their historic decision to eradicate a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.

A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or amicus briefs", used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas's wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign.