'He Performed an Abortion and Then Burned Down My House!'

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone tried to perform an abortion while committing arson or burglary? Ohio lawmakers have, and they've proposed a massive new ban to deal with that hypothetical—and a whole lot more. Jess and Imani break down a 723-page bill that will leave your jaw on the floor.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.0	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a rewire.
0:12.5	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that would like to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving and hopes that you don't have arguments with your racist
0:22.8	uncle while fighting over the turkey leg. I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire. News is
0:30.8	dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary, and
0:35.7	analysis on the web. And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:39.5	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:43.6	Jess, something is wrong in Ohio and somebody needs to fix it.
0:47.9	Wait, what do you mean?
0:49.3	Well, Republican lawmakers in Ohio have introduced yet another pre-viability abortion ban, and this one is the
0:56.4	most bizarre yet. And so I just kind of feel like there's got to be something that we can do to
1:01.9	fix Ohio. Like, we got to run a diagnostics test, or maybe one of our listeners who lives in
1:08.9	Ohio could turn Ohio off and then turn it on again.
1:12.8	Totally.
1:13.4	Maybe someone should unplug Ohio for like 30 seconds and plug it back in.
1:18.0	Or, you know, take the cartridge out and give it a good blow.
1:22.1	Yes, exactly.
1:24.1	Gosh.
1:24.8	But why are we troubleshooting Ohio?
1:26.5	Oh, wait.
1:27.3	You must be talking about the abortion
1:29.1	ban that makes performing an abortion a felony subject to life imprisonment or in some
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