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, reportedly calling herself “Wanda,” to order abortion pills. She was trying to prove how easy it is to procure the pills despite Texas’ ban. Now a Texas mother using the pseudonym Maria Puerto is suing Hawkins and three Students for Life staffers under that same law. Talk about hoisted by your own petard.

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.

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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 the Hobby Lobby decision to Alito’s flag collection, which is associated with the Stop the Steal movement and Christian nationalism (and which he blamed on his wife for), Imani Gandy walks through why you should never take his word.

Everybody’s trying to find the guy who did this. Has anyone checked the hot dog suit?

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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 between two people, with the state serving as referee. 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.

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