Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a rewire.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that doubts your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

I'm Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire.

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subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners. So, Jess, I have good news.

I've got bad news.

And I have a question.

Which do you want first?

Hit me with the question.

It's a question about your kids.

Okay.

So when you found out that you were pregnant with your kids, were you confused about what their race would be?

I'm sorry, what? What? I'm just wanting to know if at any time when you were pregnant with either of your kids, did you have any confusion about what the race of your

kids would be? What kind of question? Is this a trick question? What are you doing? Nope. It's not a trick question.

Okay. So what in the world are you talking about? Their dad's white. I'm white. And so any kids that we have would be white.

I mean, let me be clear that wasn't a prerequisite or anything. But I'm pretty sure that's how it works. So it stands to reason then

if, for example, a black woman found out she was pregnant and decided to continue that

pregnancy to term, she would understand that barring any complications she would be giving

birth to a black baby.

Okay, sure. I mean, that makes sense when I was pregnant with both my kids and I was going

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