It’s April, Fools, and Lizz and Marie hold it down in the Sleeper Cell while Moji is home sleeping off her vaccine!! This week we have all the axes to grind! The first abortion case SCOTUS has agreed to take will have the 6-3 (and not in a good way) court decide if the Kentucky AG-ro can bring cases to SCOTUS that lower courts have RULED are trash. Oh the floodgates...  PLUS Two southwestern states are in a battle royal for the title  “Most Medically Unnecessary and Cruel Legislatures” And we channel our anger over a MN State Supreme Court ruling that reversed a rape conviction with Kaarin Long and Lindsay J. Brice, two of the local policy and legal experts who are working tirelessly to change the unjust law that led to all of it. 

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell:

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

Special guests: 

Kaarin Long

Lindsay J. Brice

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Quick Hits:

Kentucky AG continues to be TrashAF

* Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center* A Conservative SCOTUS

Oklahoma’s Trinity of Restrictions

* Targeting Providers and Fake Heartbeats 

Texas Senate Passes A Week’s Worth of Bans

* Details What is at Stake in the Lone Star State on the Restrictions* Texas Capitol Order of Business 

Meaty Story

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Today we talk with Kaarin Long, Women's Rights Staff Attorney at The Advocates for Human Rights and Lindsay J. Brice, Law & Policy Director of Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault about the work being done to close Minnesota’s rape loophole.

* Background Information * What this Really Says about Rape* Working group report

Resources

* Rape Help Minnesota advocates* STANDPOINT attorneys and advocates* The Advocates for Human Rights* Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault* Upcoming fundraiser!

Six Degrees

Can Lizz Tie Abortion to Indie Music Festivals?

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