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Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to a special episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal

journalism team that thinks abortion providers are the real heroes. I'm ReWire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that thinks abortion providers are the

real heroes. I'm ReWire News Group's editor at large, Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo, Rewire Newsgroup's

executive editor. Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert repro journalism that inspires

you to thank an abortion provider today. And the boom

layered podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new

listeners. So today we're going to take a little respite from the legal news to talk about

abortion provider appreciation day. And then we're going to interview two fixtures of the

abortion rights movement, one a sociologist and one, a law professor, who have written a new book that looks at the post-Dob's era from the viewpoint of abortion providers.

Now, technically, we are a few days late in celebrating abortion provider appreciation day. I'll admit it. This episode drops on March 13th,

and abortion provider appreciation day is March 10th. But here at Boomeroyard, we celebrate

abortion provider appreciation week. And we all know that time is a trick anyway. So, and this is a

thing that we just made up. So it's great. Go with it.

But seriously, there's a need to actually celebrate people who are keeping essential health care running while dealing with all the nonsense that gets thrown at them.

So let's give a round of applause.

With people who open their clinic doors every day, knowing full well, they'll have to dodge

protesters, deal with hostile politicians, and try to make a living without a personal bodyguard.

And if that's not dedication, I honestly don't know what it is. Every morning they unlock the door,

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