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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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Dec 28, 20231 min read
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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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Dec 26, 20231 min read
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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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Dec 18, 20231 min read
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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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Dec 14, 20232 min read
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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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Dec 12, 20232 min read
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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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Dec 8, 20231 min read
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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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Nov 10, 20232 min read
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Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia Move Towards Abortion Rights
Abortion rights advocates won major victories Tuesday as voters in conservative-leaning Ohio decisively passed a constitutional amendment...
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Nov 8, 20232 min read
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61 Women Were Criminally Probed For Abortions Over 20 Years
Between 2000 and 2020, 61 people, including seven minors, were criminally investigated or arrested for allegedly ending their own...
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Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Local Ordinances Target Abortion Travel Aid in Texas
Abortion opponents in Texas are passing local ordinances that prevent people from helping those who want an abortion in traveling to...
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Oct 26, 20231 min read
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Federal Prosecutions Of Abortion Protesters Stir Controversy
In August 2020, antiabortion protesters sat in front of an abortion clinic in Sterling Heights, Mich., singing Christian hymns and...
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Oct 16, 20232 min read
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Woman Who Set Abortion Clinic on Fire Sentenced to 5 Years by Judge
A judge Thursday handed down the minimum prison sentence of five years to a woman who set fire to what was to be Wyoming’s first...
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Sep 29, 20232 min read
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Nebraska Woman Gets Two-Year Term Over Daughter's Abortion
Before imposing a two-year prison sentence to a Nebraska mother in connection to her teen daughter’s late-term abortion, a federal judge...
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Sep 25, 20232 min read
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TX Sites May Test Bans On Traveling To Seek Abortions Out of State
More than a year ago, anti-abortion activists appeared eager to prohibit anyone seeking an abortion in a state where it is banned from...
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Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Mexico Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Abortion
Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a federal law criminalizing abortion, reaffirming a ruling that criminal penalties for...
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Sep 7, 20231 min read
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Antiabortion Activist Convicted After Blockading DC Clinic
An antiabortion activist who kept fetuses in a Capitol Hill home was convicted Tuesday of illegally blockading a reproductive health...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
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OH Voters Reject Change That Could Have Harmed Abortion Rights
Ohio voters rejected a proposal that would have made it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution, including a measure...
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Aug 9, 20231 min read
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Abortion Pill Pipeline Grows Under Blue States' Shield Laws
A new procedure adopted in the past month by one of the largest abortion pill suppliers now allows U.S. medical professionals in certain...
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Jul 20, 20232 min read
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Man Gets Life Term For Raping, Impregnating Ohio Girl, 9
The man convicted of raping and impregnating a nine-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion has been sentenced to life...
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Jul 6, 20232 min read
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How States Are Criminalizing Abortion Despite Vows Not To Do So
Abortion opponents say they want to criminalize only providers, not pregnant people. In a statement this year titled, “Why women are not,...
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Jun 21, 20233 min read
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