SCOTUS is considering whether Tennessee's total ban on transgender medical care for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause, and Liz and Rebecca have some thoughts. They explain what the oral arguments last month revealed and what the stakes are for the real people who will be affected by the Court’s decision.

Background

• Case page on SCOTUSblog

• Oral Arguments Transcript

• Senate Bill 1

• NYT: "Opinion - The Supreme Court Just Showed Us What Contempt for Expertise Looks Like”

• SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Tennessee ban on youth transgender care

Cases

• Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)

• Loving v. Virginia (1967)

• Bostock v. Clayton County (2020)

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Liz and Rebecca process the 2024 election results. They discuss the challenges the new administration will bring, some under-the-radar encouraging election results, and how their organizations plan to continue fighting for secular democracy in the months and years ahead.

Background

• National Women’s Law Center

• Abortion

• • ACLU of Missouri’s abortion case - Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains & Planned Parenthood Great Rivers v. Missouri

  • AU’s abortion case - Rev. Blackmon v. Missouri

• Results for education and school choice ballot measures, 2024

• Project 2025

• • Episode 34 - Project 2025

  • AU’s Project 2025 Hub

  • CBS News: “See the full list of Trump Cabinet picks and major White House appointments”

  • New York Magazine: “All of the Trump Cabinet Picks That Have Ties to Project 2025”

Resources

• FFRF

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• Americans United

• • Join AU

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  • Sign up for action alerts

• How to Contact Your Elected Officials

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Alison, Liz, and Rebecca are joined by Jenifer McKenna to talk about the billion dollar crisis pregnancy center industry and its role in the anti-abortion movement. They discuss the massive harms caused by these unregulated fake clinics, Jenifer’s work on the first multi-state CPC investigation, and a new approach to exposing their unethical tactics and fighting back.

Show Notes

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch

• “Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States”

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch: Recent CPC research and analysis

• • “Why is the billion-dollar unregulated pregnancy clinic industry receiving increasing taxpayer dollars?”

  • “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinic Industry’s Revenue Soars to $1.7 Billion Annually”

  • “Anti-Choice Leaders Are Mobilizing Thousands of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Against Abortion Access Ballot Initiatives”

• Jenifer McKenna’s Ms Magazine articles

• • “Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to Crisis Pregnancy Centers”

  • “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Collect Health Information From Pregnant People—With No Privacy Protection”

  • “Documentary ‘Preconceived’ Exposes Horrors of Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry: ‘I Came to You for Help. Why Did You Lie?’”

• Women’s Law Project

• Gender Justice

• Rewire investigation on LIFElink Carolina

• ”Preconceived” Documentary

Cases

• NIFLA v. Becerra (2018)

• Jane Doe v. Clearway Clinic (2023)

• Four Women Health Services v. Abundant Hope Pregnancy Resource Center (2024)

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