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Boom! Lawyered

This City Wants Your Racist Uncle to Enforce Their Abortion Ban

Boom! Lawyered

Rewire News Group

Immigration, News, History, Jeff Sessions, Reproductive, Racial, Trials, Law, Lgbtq, Supreme Court, Scotus, Government, Politics, Justice, Discrimination

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lubbock, a self-described "sanctuary city for the unborn," is hoping the rest of the country follows their example.

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is together in Boulder, Colorado right now. Yay! I'm Rewireire News Group, senior editor of law and policy,

0:22.4

Imani Gandhi. I'm Jess Peeklo, ReWire News Group's executive editor. ReWire Newsgroup is the one

0:28.7

and only home for expert repro journalism that inspires you to light a candle for Justice

0:34.6

Stephen Breyer's retirement. And the Team Legal Podcast is part of that mission.

0:39.9

So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners. All right. So it has been a

0:46.0

big news week in abortion land. Congress is apparently stepping up a little bit. First of all,

0:53.7

let's all sit with that news because what?

0:56.2

What? How is that happening? That's odd. This week, members of Congress reintroduced the

1:01.8

Women's Health Protection Act. And I mean, it's a good time to remind everybody that, you know,

1:05.6

not everybody who gets abortion is women, but that's the name of the legislation. So we're talking

1:08.7

about the Women's Health Protection Act, okay? This is a big deal. And it could be one of the things that helps really

1:14.9

shore up abortion rates in the event that the Supreme Court does what we kind of think they're

1:18.8

going to do in the Jay-Woop versus Casey. Sorry, I just got a J-Woop whenever. And you also said

1:25.2

Jay-W Wu versus Casey.

1:30.2

It's Jay Wu versus the world as far as I'm concerned.

1:32.2

Tamani.

1:34.4

But seriously,

1:35.3

we have had some great coverage

1:36.7

of the Women's Health Protection Act,

1:38.1

both at the site and on social.

1:39.8

And so really,

1:40.5

if you don't know

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