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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20241 min read
Arizona House Votes To Repeal Abortion Ban Upheld By State Supreme Court
On Wednesday, the Arizona House of Representatives voted to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864 that was upheld by the state’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 24, 20242 min read
AZ Prosecutor Elections Turn Attention to Abortion Ban
Pro-choice advocates have been working hard to reverse the Arizona Supreme Court's decision to uphold a near-total abortion ban. Despite...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 17, 20241 min read
Man Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Firebombing California Planned Parenthood Clinic
A California man who used a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a clinic providing abortion services was sentenced to nine years in prison on...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 10, 20242 min read
Court Rules Arizona Can Enforce Abortion Ban
Arizona will soon join 14 other states that have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy after a state Supreme Court ruling Tuesday...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 1, 20242 min read
TX Woman Sues Prosecutors Over Wrongful Abortion Charges
A woman in Texas who was falsely charged with murder over a self-induced abortion has filed a lawsuit against the local prosecutor’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 27, 20242 min read
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Allow Use Of Abortion Pill
A Supreme Court bitterly divided two years ago over the right to an abortion appeared to find something close to unity Tuesday, as...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 27, 20241 min read
AL Chief Justice Has Ties To Far-Right Christian Thinking
Following the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are essentially children, Chief Justice Tom Parker has been under...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 27, 20241 min read
Explosive Detonated Outside Alabama AG Office
Alabama law enforcement officials are investigating after an explosive detonated outside the office of the state's attorney general on...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20242 min read
More Alabama IVF Providers Pause Treatment Following Court Ruling
In the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos could be considered children under Alabama state law, more in vitro...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 25, 20242 min read
Study Finds 64,565 Rape-Related Pregnancies After Abortion Bans
Doctors say thousands of rape-related pregnancies have happened in just the 14 U.S. states that have total abortion bans. In a letter...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 12, 20242 min read
Grand Jury Drops Case Against Ohio Woman Who Suffered Miscarriage
Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman who faced a criminal charge after she suffered a miscarriage at home, will not be indicted, a grand jury...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 8, 20242 min read
Idaho’s Abortion Ban Back In Effect As Supreme Court Considers It
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Idaho's abortion ban to go into effect, and agreed to hear an appeal in the case, scheduling arguments for...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20241 min read
Grand Jury To Decide Case Of Ohio Woman Who Miscarried
An Ohio woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus at home could be indicted for abuse of a corpse by an Ohio grand jury Wednesday, the New...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20231 min read
Backlash Grows for Ohio D.A. Trying to Indict Woman Who Miscarried
Medical and legal professionals are rejecting the claim by an Ohio district attorney that he lacks the power to drop the case against an...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Grand Jury To Decide Whether To Charge OH Woman Who Miscarried
A grand jury is set to decide whether an Ohio woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus should face criminal consequences. Brittany Watts,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 18, 20231 min read
In Another Post-Roe Peril, Black Woman Charged After Miscarriage
Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Texas Doctors Continue To Fear Prosecution After Abortion Ruling
Texas doctors, women, and lawyers have been asking the state for nearly two years to clarify what is and what is not allowed under...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 12, 20232 min read
In Texas and Other States, Abortion Seekers Caught in Legal Battles
In Texas, Kate Cox, a Dallas-area woman, left the state to get an abortion after the state Supreme Court blocked a lower-court ruling...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 8, 20231 min read
Texas AG Says Abortions Still Are Prosecutable Despite Exemptions
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said any doctor who performs an abortion in Texas will be prosecuted, even after a woman was granted a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Federal Judge Pauses Idaho Abortion Trafficking Ban
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the Idaho abortion trafficking ban, putting the law on pause, Courthouse...
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