If ‘Roe’ Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything? (And a Word to My Boom! Lawyered Fam)
Summary
Host Imani Gandhi announces Boom, Lawyered’s hiatus and critiques the reproductive rights movement’s over-reliance on legal strategy over public health evidence. She argues that framing abortion as a privacy right rather than "good medicine" left the movement vulnerable after Dobbs, ignoring the disproportionate impact on Black women. Gandhi contrasts this with Clarence Thomas’s emotionally manipulative legal arguments and highlights the Turnaway Study’s ignored data. She introduces guest Elizabeth Booker-Houston to further stress-test these theories on the intersection of law and health.
Topics discussed
Boom Lawyered hiatus and Jessica Mason Pico's departure
June Medical Services case and the limits of legal strategy
Clarence Thomas, reason bans, and distorted history
Roe v. Wade as privacy case and reproductive justice
Post-Dobbs landscape and the 'abortion is healthcare' trap
The Turnaway Study and 'abortion is good medicine'
Black maternal mortality and integrating health data
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