Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a rewire.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that stands for Monica Lewinsky.

Because my God, she shut down the internet yesterday and if you haven't seen

the tweet I urge you to go find it I'm Imani Gandhi and I'm Jess Piclo rewire dot news is dedicated to

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So, Jess, you know how for a while in the early aughts, anti-choicers really laid it on pretty

thick when it came to Keening about how abortion restrictions are about protecting

women.

Oh, sure. And how abortion is

harmful to women because it causes post-abortion dramatic syndrome, which is a totally made-up

syndrome that doesn't exist. So we remember that, right? Yep. And you remember how they used to,

you know, argue that they're trying to protect women from themselves and from the quote-unquote abortionists

who want to subvert a woman's natural duty when it comes to becoming a mother?

I mean, how could I forget that? They wouldn't shut up about it.

They really wouldn't. I mean, in the 1980s, for those of you who weren't around or don't remember, the anti-choicers

were all about calling people who got abortions baby killers and barking at them like rabid

dogs.

We had Operation Rescue openly targeting doctors and patients.

It was, frankly, terrifying.

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