Imani Gandy

Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyered, the law without the lecture.

I'm your host, Imani Gandy, and today I'm opening up office hours.

I'm gonna be answering a listener question from Contessa.

She asks, what the hell is fetal personhood? The short answer is that fetal personhood is the legal strategy of turning a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus into a constitutional rights-bearing person.

But the one thing that you need to know is that fetal personhood is not about making a fetus equal to you.

It's about making a fetus legally useful against you.

I'm Imani Gandy.

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Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyer: The Law Without the Lecture.

I'm your host, Imani Gandy.

And on today's docket, three states just told a federal court that abortion pills belong in the same category as anthrax and mail bombs.

Because that's not dramatic at all.

Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyered, the law without the lecture.

I'm Imani Gandy, and on today's docket, a surprise about the Missouri redistricting fight.

This one might be a bit of a long one, so strap in and let me tell you how it came to be that the United States Supreme Court did something nice for Black voters on Friday.

That's right.

I, I think I blacked out there for a minute.

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I'm Imani Gandy, AKA Angry Black Lady.

If you have a question, remember, office hours are open.

Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyer: The Law Without the Lecture.

I'm your host, Imani Gandy.

If you've ever waited months to see a doctor, or you're pregnant in a county with no OBGYN, or you're Black and looking for a Black doctor, the Trump administration has been making it really hard for you.

Because the Trump administration looked at medical schools in this country and decided they weren't white enough.

Send it to a friend who keeps wondering why everyone's freaking out about trans women in women's basketball.

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Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyered, the law without the lecture.

I'm Imani Gandy, Rewire News Group's executive producer of legal content.

On today's docket, Tiara Walker.

Tiara Walker was 37 years old and pregnant with a wanted pregnancy.

And somewhere between those two arguments is a woman who asked for an abortion because she thought her pregnancy was going to kill her, and then it did.

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I'm Imani Gandy.

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Welcome to Baby Boom Lawyered, the law without the lecture.

I'm your host, Imani Gandy, aka Angry Black Lady.

Okay, I could have picked something sexy for this episode, like birthright citizenship.

Instead, disparate impact.

So you can make of that what you will.

The EEOC has abandoned the people who needed the agency to chase cases built on air and white grievance.

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If you've ever seen somebody nodding along like she understands what's happening in the WNBA because her girlfriend has been explaining it to her for years, that was probably me.

Welcome to Bitch Listen.

Welcome back to Baby Boom Lawyered, the law without the lecture.

I'm Imani Gandy, Rewire News Group's executive producer of legal content.

And I have to start today's episode with a bit of a confession because I like to hear myself talk, but I also like to be right, and today I was only half right.

So in my last episode, I told you the Fifth Circuit was probably going to rule for Louisiana again in Louisiana v. FDA, the big mifepristone case.

We've been getting it wrong for 25 years." So I was wrong about how confident to be about this Fifth Circuit panel, but I'm not wrong that this isn't over, not by a long shot.

This has been Baby Boom Lawyered.

I'm Imani Gandy, your friendly neighborhood angry Black lady.

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