Given the obstacles Black women already face, new barriers to abortion—in Louisiana and across the country—will turn reproductive health care into a right we cannot exercise.
Jessica Mason Pieklo was inside the Supreme Court for arguments in June Medical Services v. Russo. Then she literally ran across the street to record this podcast with co-host Imani Gandy so she could bring the rest of us up to speed on the most important and surprising moments of the day.
States that have seen clinic shutdown laws struck down could reintroduce the measures if Supreme Court conservatives side with Louisiana in June Medical Services v. Russo.
How the U.S. Supreme Court justices decide June Medical Services v. Russo will have major implications for marginalized communities across Louisiana and the United States.
On March 4, 2020 the Supreme Court will hear the first major abortion rights case since Brett Kavanaugh joined the bench. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo preview what's at stake and explain the sleeper issue that could upend abortion rights law as we know it.
According to Americans United for Life and conservative lawmakers, everyone expects the Supreme Court to end legal abortion eventually, so why wait when the Court could do so this summer in June Medical Services?
From a landmark Supreme Court case to a bevy of state bans being argued in the lower courts, 2020 is shaping up to be a wild ride for abortion rights in the United States. In our final Boom! Lawyered episode of 2019, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo map out every case worth following in the year ahead.
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