Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.

News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really wants to reiterate that you can no sooner abort a baby after it's been born than you can

abort a 75-year-old man.

I'm Imani Gandhi.

And I'm Jess Piclo.

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This week we're going to talk about a lawsuit that should rightfully infuriate you, so you might

want to sit down and prepare yourself. We're talking about Ryan Majors' lawsuit against the Alabama

Women's Center. Ryan Majors is su against the Alabama Women's Center.

Ryan Majors is suing the abortion clinic for wrongful death because his then 16-year-old

girlfriend, with the consent of her parents, mind you, got an abortion against Majors'

wishes.

Amani, someone needs to tell him that that's just not how any of this works.

You know, Jess, it's really not, but it is part of the fight for fetal personhood, and this week

we're going to explain how Alabama has been smack dab in the middle of it, from their efforts

to get lawyers appointed to fetuses during judicial bypass proceedings, to holding pregnant people

criminally liable under child endangerment

statutes, to passing a constitutional amendment, giving fertilized eggs and embryos the same

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