What a Challenge to 'Roe' Will Actually Look Like

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Conservative lawmakers are passing total and near-total abortion bans with the explicit hope that they will be used to overturn Roe v. Wade. But how would that work, exactly? Imani and Jess explain the arguments that would fuel a legal challenge to Roe and how a bad decision could then be used to attack state laws protecting abortion rights.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.1	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a rewired.
0:12.3	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that wants to stop the fucking bands.
0:20.2	I'm Imani Gandy. And I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:22.1	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:24.3	Rewire.
0:24.8	News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights in social justice news, commentary,
0:29.9	and analysis on the web.
0:31.7	And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:34.3	So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:37.8	So, Jess, it's been a bananas couple of weeks with all of the
0:40.7	abortion bans and near total abortion bans that states
0:43.6	have been jamming through their legislatures and all the
0:46.4	will they, won't they, talk about the Supreme Court overturning
0:49.6	row. There's the Alabama total abortion ban,
0:53.1	the Georgia near total abortion ban. the Georgineer total abortion ban.
0:55.6	Let's just say shenanigans are afoot. And so, you know, I decided earlier this week that I was going to do something that I hadn't done in a while.
1:04.5	Let's see, yell at people on Twitter. Oh, Jess, Jesus Christ, you know I do that every day.
1:08.6	No, you're working on being nicer, Armani.
1:10.9	You're right.
1:11.5	I have.
1:12.0	I have been very...
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