Two More Minors Leave Ohio To Avoid Having Rapists' Babies
At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies, reports the...
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- Sep 26
- 1 min
Judge Upholds Civil War-Era Arizona Law Banning Most Abortions
Arizona Democrats vowed to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 14
- 2 min
Pregnant LA Woman With Skull-Less Fetus Goes to NY For Legal Abortion
An expectant Louisiana woman who was carrying a skull-less fetus that would die within a short time after birth traveled 1,400 miles to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Michigan Judge Rules 1931 Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
The 1931 law criminalizing most abortions in Michigan violates the state constitution, ruled Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Overturn of Roe Prompts More Focus on State Supreme Court Races
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned precedent that protected the right to an abortion nationwide, Illinois Circuit Court Judge...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Prosecutions of Women Who Use Drugs While Pregnant On the Rise
In the United States, more than 50 women have been prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter since 1999 because they were found...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Fetal Personhood Laws Could Criminalize Common Health Actions
As roughly half the states have moved to enact near-total bans on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Can Prosecutors Stop Legal Action In Abortion Cases After Fall Of Roe?
When the Supreme Court toppled the constitutional right to abortion, some prosecutors country vowed to refrain from enforcing new...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Five Varied Abortion Measures On State Ballots In November
The landslide victory for abortion rights in a Kansas primary vote this month was the first direct expression of voter sentiment on the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 10
- 2 min
NE Woman Charged in Helping Her Teen Daughter Have An Abortion
A Nebraska woman was charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators uncovered Facebook...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 3
- 1 min
DOJ Challenges Idaho's 'Trigger' Near-Total Abortion Ban
The Justice Department filed a challenge to Idaho's "trigger" near-total abortion ban — the Biden's administration's first abortion...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 2
- 1 min
Seven Michigan Prosecutors Won't Enforce the State Abortion Ban
On Monday, Michigan’s Court of Appeals ruled abortion a crime except in cases to save the mother’s life, Detroit Free Press reports. The...
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Crime and Justice News
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Biden Faces Controversy Over Abortion Pill by Mail
The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices, denouncing their colleagues’ decision to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion, warned...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 29
- 2 min
How Midwestern Journalists Found Story Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim
Good court reporting by midwest journalists proved that the story of a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 21
- 1 min
Ocasio-Cortez Denies She Faked Being Handcuffed At High Court
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pushed back on criticism claiming she faked being handcuffed when police arrested her at an abortion...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 21
- 1 min
DOJ May Sue States That Banned All Abortions After SCOTUS Decision
Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened to sue states that have outlawed or restricted abortion since the Supreme Court overturned...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 20
- 1 min
Doctor Who Did Abortion For Rape Victim, 10, Suing Indiana AG
Caitlin Bernard, the ob-gyn who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, is suing Indiana Attorney General Todd...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Ohio Rape Abortion Story Spread Fast Despite Lack of Facts
It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to start a media conflagration over abortion that in two weeks engulfed President...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 14
- 2 min
Critics Say DOJ Rules Could Allow Abortion Privacy Violations
Democratic leaders have upped the pressure on tech companies to limit how much sensitive data they collect after the Supreme Court...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Man Arrested For Rape of 10-Year Old Girl Who Traveled For Abortion
A man was charged with impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion got international attention and...
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