NIFLA v. Becerra
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Crisis pregnancy centers can provide misinformation about healthcare and perform medical procedures without requiring a licensed doctor. Yes, all of that is legal, thanks to the Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument this morning in case number 16, 1140, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates versus Becerra. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, the hosts are talking about Nifla v. Bacera, a case from 2018 that centers around |
| 0:23.8 | reproductive rights and free speech. Nifla, if you're not familiar with the Crisis Pregnancy |
| 0:28.7 | Center seen, is the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a nonprofit that claimed |
| 0:34.9 | the California law violated free speech protections by requiring clinics |
| 0:39.0 | offering pregnancy-related care to provide people with certain information about legal abortion. |
| 0:44.6 | The law also required that clinics disclose if they are licensed medical providers, which most |
| 0:49.8 | of these crisis pregnancy centers were not. |
| 0:52.6 | There are thousands of fake health clinics around our country, 370 in the state of California, |
| 1:00.2 | that are unfortunately deceiving women. |
| 1:02.1 | The Supreme Court sided with the pro-life clinics and struck down the California law. |
| 1:07.1 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:19.5 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have poked holes in our civil rights like Elon Musk, |
| 1:29.5 | poking holes in his brain with enphetamines. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm here with Rianan. |
| 1:33.5 | Hey, it's me. |
| 1:35.9 | Elon Musk is really tweaking, isn't he? |
| 1:37.7 | Losing it every single day. It's cool to watch someone have a perpetual meltdown for actual years, both in person and online, and also know that they are the |
| 1:46.7 | most powerful person in the world. That's cool. That rules. Yeah. To have been rewarded for those years of |
| 1:52.9 | being primetime bitch number one publicly, you know? Yeah. And to now just be standing in the Oval |
| 2:00.6 | Office next to the president's desk being like yeah |
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