Alabama AG Warns Of Prosecuting Women For Using Abortion Pills
Alabama’s attorney general became the most prominent Republican official yet to suggest that pregnant women could be prosecuted for...
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- Jan 4
- 2 min
DOJ Clears Postal Service To Deliver Abortion Drugs
The Justice Department cleared the U.S. Postal Service to deliver abortion drugs to states that have strict limits on terminating...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Arizona Rules Abortion Doctors Can't Be Prosecuted Under Old Law
An Arizona court ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
City, County Governments Curb Abortions Even If State Allows Them
Some city and county governments in states that allow abortion are exploring ways to restrict it within their communities. The Supreme...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Antiabortion Advocates Seek Ways To Stop Illegal Pill Distribution
The largest antiabortion organization in Texas has a team of advocates assigned to investigate citizens who might be distributing...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
AL Case Shows Issues In 'Fetal Personhood' Legal Theory
An ongoing lawsuit in Alabama represents the far-reaching criminalization of women enabled by some anti-abortion ideology and the U.S....
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 16, 2022
- 1 min
GA Abortion Ruling Hands Hot Potato to Kemp and Lawmakers
The state court ruling that suspended Georgia’s antiabortion law Tuesday leaves many unanswered questions in state politics, from appeal...
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Michigan Voters Approve Constitutional Right to Abortion
Michigan voters, after an expensive and tense campaign, approved a sweeping amendment to the state’s constitution guaranteeing the right...
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
IN Doctor Who Performed Abortion on 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Sues AG
The Indiana physician who drew national attention after providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio filed a lawsuit on...
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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
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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Crime and Justice News
- Sep 26, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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