Wombs Are Not Meth Labs—but Some Prosecutors Treat Them the Same

Boom! Lawyered

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The criminalization of pregnancy won't stop happening. Pregnancy is dangerous enough as it is, but increasingly the threat of incarceration will make it more dangerous.

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0:06.0	Still, excuse me, do I remember that song? I'm offended. When was the last time I played that song last week? Yesterday. Right.
0:18.1	Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome. two, three, four.
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0:24.8	Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a ReWire News Group podcast hosted by the legal
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0:41.3	ReWire News Group's senior editor of Law and Policy. I was so excited. I was like cheerleading
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1:10.3	So last week I had the COVID.
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