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So y'all, today is a day. We are going to be talking about an attorney in Florida who's making claims that his client, a fetus, by the way, his client's a fetus, is being illegally detained in prison and should be released. Let me say that again. He's making claims

that his client, who is a fetus, is being illegally detained in prison and should be released.

His client's mother, Natalia Harrell, is in prison on murder charges. And so first things first,

Amani, this Florida attorney is arguing that innocent

fetuses don't belong in jail. This is going to be a complicated one because there are a lot of

feelings on either side of this issue. And so I'm hoping to change some hearts and minds with this

episode. That's my goal. But first,

let's talk about what's going on here. Okay. Okay. So in July of last year, Natalia Harel went to a bar with a friend. Her friend's name was Gladys Borsela. At the end of the night,

the pair ended up in an Uber where they got into an argument. Natalia pulled out a gun and shot and killed Gladys. Natalia was six weeks

pregnant at the time. First of all, yikes? Yeah, it's already yikes. What an Uber. Yeah. What a night out.

Like, that'd be like you and me going out to Red Rocks and in the eggs, I just shoot you in the cab. Can you imagine coming back from Brandy Carlisle and like, pew, pew, pew. I don't know why I went pew, pew, pew. That's terrible. I'm very sorry. This is a serious case. We need none of that, Jessica. Apologies. Okay. We need a little. So Natalia has been held without bond since July. And now that she's

eight months pregnant, her attorney is arguing that the jail staff has endangered the fetus by

refusing to provide proper prenatal care and putting her in dangerous situations. So here's a

couple of examples of what she's been subject to. Staff left her in a van with no air

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