Baby Boom! Lawyered

What does fetal viability mean? And why do ballot measures that are supposed to protect abortion rights keep sneaking in a viability limit, as if drawing the line at 23 or 24 weeks makes it reasonable to deny abortion access? On this Imani Explains it All episode, Imani Gandy explains why a fetal viability limit still amounts to an abortion ban, and why the people who hit that wall are those with the fewest options: Folks who get terrible news late, are poor, or Black, or young, or who spent weeks trying to scrape up the money to get to the one clinic left in their region.

Imani Gandy breaks down HB 7, whether Maria Puerto can actually win, and why Hawkins’ best defense might be admitting the whole thing was a stunt.

Sam Alito keeps saying he has a pretty good idea who leaked the Dobbs draft but he still won’t share it. Funny. Imani has a suspect too: Sam Alito.

In this Office Hours episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy explains how the law decide who counts as a person, from corporations and Alabama’s “extrauterine children” to a fetus in Florida whose lawyer tried to spring it from jail.

Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two lawsuits targeting abortion shield laws and the providers who mail abortion pills into states where abortion is banned.