The Assault on Reproductive Rights: An Interview with Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Next year, 2023, will mark the 50-year anniversary of the landmark Roe v Wade case…if it is not overturned by then. Gaslit Nation welcomes Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo, the cohosts of the podcast Boom! Lawyered, to explain the ongoing attack on reproductive rights, why prior warnings were not heeded, and what actions we can take to fight back now. We discuss the long-term Republican takeover of the courts, the questionable legitimacy of the Supreme Court, the connections between the erosion of reproductive rights and the strengthening of an autocratic surveillance state, new laws legalizing violent vigilantism against women in states like Texas, why the media played down these threats, how the Democrats should respond, and much more!

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0:00.0	I'm Sarah Kanzir, the author of the bestsellers, the view from fly over country and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book, They Knew, How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America complacent,
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0:25.3	I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic
0:31.5	thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, a film the Kremlin doesn't want you to see,
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1:35.8	This interview is recorded at the end of December 2021.
1:40.1	We are joined by two very exciting guests, Jessica and Amani, from the Boom Lawyard podcast. So this is a
1:49.7	podcast off, kind of like a dance off for your ears. All right, so we're going to introduce them,
1:56.5	even though they don't need any introduction. Jessica Mason Piclo is a senior vice president, executive editor of Rewired News.
2:03.7	Jessica has over a decade of experience as a former litigator and taught law for four years before transitioning to journalism.
2:10.6	She was part of the Scotus Blogs Symposium on abortion rights following Whole Woman's Health versus Hellersted and won the Excellence in
2:18.2	in Online Journalism Award in 2018 from the Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
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