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  • Why a Fetal Viability Ban is Still Just a Ban

    October 20, 2026 · 7 min

    https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/30/fetal-viability-missouri-abortion-amendment/  Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires. Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. If Baby Boom! Lawyered helps you…

  • Texas’s Abortion Pill Bounty Law Comes for Kristan Hawkins

    October 16, 2026 · 9 min

    Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins pushed hard for Texas’ House Bill 7, a “bounty hunter law” that allows total strangers to sue anyone who mails or hands over abortion pills. Then, she went to Texas and went undercover…

  • Sam Alito Is Looking for the Guy Who Leaked Dobbs

    October 13, 2026 · 11 min

    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. From the toothless investigation into who leaked the Dobbs decision and the alleged leak of…

  • What the Hell is Fetal Personhood?

    October 6, 2026 · 11 min

    One of our listeners, Contessa, wants to know what the hell fetal personhood is. Short answer: It’s the anti-choice movement’s push to give fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses a legal right to life, which turns pregnancy into a conflict…

  • What Happens If SCOTUS Orders Blue States to Respect Fetal Personhood?

    October 2, 2026 · 11 min

    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. Imani examines how the states use fetal personhood to describe their…

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  • SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.

    September 29, 2026 · 12 min

    The Supreme Court did something nice for Black voters. I’m as shocked as you are. On Sept. 25, the Court told the Eighth Circuit to knock it off and stop trying to force Missouri to use a gerrymandered 2025 congressional map that…

  • Make Med School White Again

    September 25, 2026 · 9 min

    Trump’s Department of Justice says the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, discriminated against white and Asian applicants, and it’s giving the school until October 2 to enter into a voluntary resolution…

  • Tierra Walker Died Under Texas's Abortion Ban. Now Her Family Is Suing.

    September 22, 2026 · 10 min

    Tierra Walker knew her pregnancy could kill her, so she asked about an abortion. Not one of the more than 90 doctors who saw Walker offered her abortion care.  Now her family is suing the doctors, hospitals, and Texas officials who failed…

  • What Is the Shadow Docket and Why Should You Care?

    September 18, 2026 · 8 min

    The new Supreme Court term doesn't start until October, so why has the Court been issuing important rulings while it's supposed to be on break?  In this Office Hours episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy answers a listener's question…

  • Trump Is Making It Easier to Discriminate Against Black Workers (Imani Explains it All)

    September 15, 2026 · 8 min

    Disparate impact may sound boring. It isn't. It's the rule the Supreme Court established in 1971 to catch discrimination that doesn't announce itself. Fifty-four years later, the EEOC, acting on Trump's executive order, walked away from…

  • FDA Wouldn’t Defend Its Own Mifepristone Rule in Court

    September 9, 2026 · 9 min

    On Wednesday Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the abortion drug mifepristone from being mailed to patients by reinstating a rule that says you have to show up in person to get it. But if it wins, Louisiana told…

  • Louisiana Says It's ‘Blanketed’ in Contraband Mifepristone

    September 8, 2026 · 9 min

    A pill doesn't care about state lines. Louisiana does—apparently a lot. Welcome to the first-ever episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered. Imani Gandy gets into Louisiana v. FDA, the case that could result in a  ban on mailed mifepristone for…

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About the show

You were smart enough not to go to law school. Good—that's what Imani Gandy is for. Baby Boom! Lawyered is the micropodcast from the co-creator of Boom! Lawyered: two or three short episodes a week on the fastest-moving legal fights for reproductive justice. Everything from abortion rights to trans discrimination to racial justice, translated by someone who sat through the three years so you didn't have to. Produced by Rewire News Group.