This New Challenge to Roe Might Be the Most Dangerous Yet

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Shameless Tennessee lawmakers are trying to redefine fetal viability in a way that makes *no* medical sense and is designed as a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. Jess and Imani explain what makes this bill a dangerous escalation in the decades-long crusade to overturn Roe.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.0	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:12.2	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that just wants Serenity now.
0:18.9	I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:25.0	And I'm Jess Peeklo. Rewire. Dot News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web.
0:30.1	And the team legal podcast is part of that mission. So a big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome
0:34.5	to our new listeners. Jess, I'm tired.
0:38.1	Amani, why?
0:39.4	I mean, everything's exhausting, but why now?
0:42.4	Like, what's going on?
0:44.2	I'm so tired.
0:46.4	I'm like, I'm like Leslie Mann and 40-year-old virgin so tired.
0:53.6	I'm tired of talking about these quote-unquote heartbeat bands.
0:57.3	Oh, God.
0:58.4	I'm tired of explaining that they're bullshit.
1:01.4	I'm tired of using the term, quote-unquote, heartbeat because these bands aren't actually
1:06.3	heartbeat bands because six-week embryos don't have heartbeats.
1:10.7	They have what's called electrical
1:12.0	activity in the fetal pole. And so if we say heartbeat ban in this episode listeners, just know
1:19.1	that we are adding wildly sarcastic air quotes. Here's me gesticulating wildly with air quotes every
1:26.6	time heartbeat ban comes up.
1:28.9	You know, and I'm just tired of explaining that these six-week bans are essentially
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