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Shredding the Claim that Abortion Clinic Protests Are an 'Essential Service'

Boom! Lawyered

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4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Do you know who's not staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Abortion clinic protesters. In this episode, Jess and Imani lay waste to the claim that protesting an abortion clinic during a global pandemic is an "essential service" and discuss whether the courts will look the other way, anyway. Love Boom! Lawyered? Support us here: https://rewire.news/boomgive

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds.

0:09.2

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a rewire.

0:12.3

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is excelling at social distancing.

0:18.5

I'm Imani Gandy.

0:20.0

And I'm Jess Piclo.

0:21.6

Rewire.

0:22.0

News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news,

0:26.5

commentary, and analysis on the web.

0:28.6

And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.

0:31.2

So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

0:34.8

So, Jess, I'm a stay-at-home kind of person. It is known, in the words of the Dothraki. So I have no problem staying home, especially if doing so means I'm not spreading the Rona or contracting the Rona from infected people. I mean, staying home at home is pretty easy.

0:53.0

It is. But apparently people don't get it.

0:56.0

There's even a website called staythe fuck home.com that encourages people to, well, stay the fuck home.

1:03.9

That's amazing.

1:04.8

My first response to that was get out, which like, no, don't stay the fuck home.

1:09.7

I mean, I'm sure as hell staying the fuck home.

1:15.1

Listen, I've been staying the fuck home since before you were born. Wait, Amani, I'm older than you.

1:19.7

No. Yeah, it's a minor detail and only by three months. The point is, during this outbreak, it is

1:26.4

critical that people stay home, but people aren't doing it.

1:30.3

Last week, I saw a video on Twitter posted by some spring breakers in Florida, and do you know what they were doing?

1:37.7

I'm pretty sure I don't want to know what they were doing. Do I want to know? I don't think I do.

1:43.4

Probably not, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

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