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Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another summer session of Boom Lawyard, a rewire news group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really wishes that Republicans

would stop setting up shop in our collective uterus. I'm ReWire Newsgroup, co-chief content

officer, Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Piccolo, ReWire News Group's other co-chief content officer.

ReWire News Group is the one and only home for expert repro journalism that inspires you to settle in for a really

fun conversation about Medicaid folks. And the Boom Lawyered podcast is part of that mission. So a big

thanks to our subscribers and welcome to our new listeners. And viewers. Because Boom Lawyard is back

on video. And I'm so excited about that. So good to be back. Okay, I teased it,

so let's get into it. It's a meaty one. During summer sessions, Amani and I take a look at some of the

biggest legal issues of the zeitgeist and break them down with the help of a guest each episode.

This episode is all about Republicans' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. And what those efforts are

really about, and that's using abortion stigma to try and strip millions of people, folks who are

insured via Medicaid specifically, of health care. Republicans have been screaming about defunding

Planned Parenthood since both you and I got into repro journalism.

That was like 2011, 2012.

Like, it seems like they've been trying to defund Planned Parenthood since, like, the

dawn of time, essentially.

And it's always some variation of the same theme, right?

Claiming that Planned Parenthood health centers can't be qualified under Medicaid because

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