SCOTUS Preview: The Nuns Are Coming for Your Birth Control

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two consolidated cases that could kill off the birth control benefit for good. Jess and Imani preview everything you need to know. If you'd like to support Boom! Lawyered, please visit: https://rewire.news/boomgive

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.3	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a rewire.
0:12.3	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is excelling when it comes to social distancing.
0:19.2	I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:21.0	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:22.6	Rewire. News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights in social justice news,
0:27.5	commentary, and analysis on the web.
0:29.5	And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:32.1	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:36.0	Jess, I'm sick and tired of nuns. What? You heard me, I'm sick and tired of nuns.
0:38.6	What?
0:39.6	You heard me.
0:40.3	I'm sick and tired of nuns.
0:42.0	Amani, you just can't announce that you're sick and tired of nuns.
0:46.7	Like, what nuns?
0:48.0	Shirley, okay, not all the nuns.
0:50.4	Well, obviously I'm not sick and tired of all nuns.
0:53.6	Some of my best friends are nuns. Hashtag not all nuns.
0:57.6	But you're right. There are plenty of Catholics, including nuns, who support access to birth control. So I should have been a little bit more clear. I'm sick of a particular group of nuns.
1:09.4	Why are you trying to start beef with any nuns, though?
1:13.6	Like, that seems a little blasphemous, Amani. Because these nuns are starting beef with us.
1:18.8	And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of these nuns. They're coming for our birth control, Jess.
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