Myth-Busting the Anti-Choice 'Born Alive' Bills

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Anti-choice politicians are pushing a new legislative strategy to demonize their opponents and confuse the public: so-called Born Alive bills. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani and Jess dissect the myths propping up this strategy and give you all the tools you need to combat anti-choice lies about later abortion.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.2	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:12.6	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is super jazzed about Captain Marvel coming out.
0:19.0	Woohoo!
0:20.1	Woo! I'm I'm Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peek about Captain Marvel coming out. Woo-hoo! I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:22.4	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:23.8	Rewire. News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights in social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web.
0:30.8	And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:33.1	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:36.6	So, Jessica. Yeah? Did you know that there is an epidemic of babies being aborted after they're
0:43.7	born?
0:44.6	I'm sorry, what?
0:46.0	You heard me.
0:47.1	There are perfectly healthy babies that are being born and then doctors are aborting them.
0:52.8	And frankly, Jessica, I'm appalled that you don't know about this and that you haven't issued
0:57.0	a strongly worded letter against it.
0:59.7	No, no, Amani, that does not make any sense.
1:02.6	You cannot abort a newborn.
1:05.4	According to Donald Trump and Ben Sassy, you can.
1:08.3	No.
1:08.6	Which is why they are simply outrage that Senate Democrats have blocked a federal bill
1:13.8	called the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act.
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