Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is super freaking stoked that the United

States won the Women's World Cup.

I'm Imani Gandy. Yay!

And I'm Jess Piccolo. Rewire.net news is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive

rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web. And the team legal

podcast is part of that mission. So a big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome to our new

listeners.

Advocates recently filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that would ban abortion at around six weeks. The case is called Sister Song v. Kemp, and it's a really, really big deal, not just

because the Georgia law is ridiculous and should be blocked, but because this lawsuit specifically centers

black women in the legal challenge. In this episode, we're going to tell you all about the case

and how it could introduce the concept of reproductive justice to Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Okay, Amani, so where should we begin?

Reproductive justice. Let's begin there.

Nice. Okay. I love all this World Cup enthusiasm that we're bringing into this next episode.

Seriously, Amani caught World Cup fever and it feels like one of the greatest accomplishments of our professional working together. I feel so proud. But enough of that. Reproductive justice. We expect most of our listeners to know what Reproductive Justice or RJ is. But in case you don't, let's cover it real quick. Reproductive justice centers three interconnected human rights values.

Those are, one, the right not to have children, and that's using safe birth control, abortion,

or abstinence.

Two, the right to have children and under the conditions that we choose.

And three, the right to parent the children that we have in safe and healthy environments.

Black women coined the term in 1994 as a reaction to the mainstream reproductive rights movement.

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