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Shredding the Claim that Abortion Clinic Protests Are an ‘Essential Service’

In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani lay waste to the claim that protesting an abortion clinic during a global pandemic is an "essential service" and discuss whether the courts will look the other way, anyway.

[Photo: A clinic protester peers their head into a car of someone outside of an abortion clinic.]

Sex

Anti-Choice Protesters Think Stay-at-Home Orders Don’t Apply to Them

Imani Gandy

Abortion clinics protesters are fighting stay-at-home orders and putting pregnant people—who are immunosuppressed by virtue of being pregnant—at risk of contracting COVID-19.

Abortion

What It’s Like to Be an Abortion Care Provider in the South During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Regina Mahone

"We are health-care providers; we’re not being seen or treated as health-care providers by our legislators, by people in these positions of power. And yet we’re putting ourselves at the same risk as people are in hospitals."

[Photo: Judge Kyle Duncan speaks during a hearing.]

Abortion

Trump Judge’s Radical Decision Lets States Suspend Abortion Rights

Jessica Mason Pieklo

It's now impossible to get a legal abortion in Texas, thanks to the Fifth Circuit's latest ruling. The long-term consequences could be even more devastating.

[Photo: A sad woman looks out of her window.]

Abortion

Anti-Choice City Ordinances Are Proliferating. Here’s How a Lawsuit Can Stop Them.

Paige Alexandria

The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting unenforceable anti-choice city ordinances as they spread across the United States.

[Photo: A pregnant person holds their belly as they speak to a doctor who holds a clipboard.]

Parenthood

What It’s Like to Be Pregnant or a New Parent During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tiffany Diane Tso

Will the hospital be short-staffed? Will my prenatal appointments be canceled? Will my infant be exposed to COVID-19?

[Photo: Queer parents smile as they hold their baby.]

Power

As COVID-19 Highlights Need for Family Leave, Here’s How Some Reproductive Rights Groups Stack Up

Alys Brooks

The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the urgency for paid leave benefits, as a survey suggests parental leave is more common at reproductive rights organizations than in the U.S. workforce at large.

[Photo: A black and white photo of the silhouette of a woman holding her head as she sits on a bed in front of a window.]

Abortion

‘Total Panic’: How One Texas Woman Sought an Abortion After Her State Banned Them

Galina Espinoza

When Texas officials declared abortions "nonessential" amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one woman's abortion plans were derailed. She went on a five-day journey to legally get one.

[Photo: A worried woman wearing a face mask looks out the window of a bus.]

Abortion

When the Abortion Clinic Is Open, but You Have No Way to Get There

Lauren Young

“Not enough conversation is happening around how we transport patients and our volunteer networks that exist around the country.”

[Photo: A nurse helping a mother of color during labor.]

Parenthood

They Didn’t Have Coronavirus Symptoms Until After They Gave Birth. Then They Tested Positive.

Nina Martin, ProPublica

It’s asymptomatic people who may hold the most urgent lessons for a maternal care system that is scrambling to reinvent itself during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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