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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Crime and Justice News
Oct 26, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Oct 16, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Sep 29, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Sep 7, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Aug 9, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 6, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jun 20, 20232 min read
Sharing Reproductive Health Info Should Be Illegal: Attorneys General
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a coalition of state attorneys general asked for protections that would...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 16, 20232 min read
FBI Abortion-Related 'Terrorism' Probes Increase Significantly
Last year, as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade led to major protests nationwide, the FBI opened nearly 10 times as...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20232 min read
Attacks on Abortion Clinics Rise Since the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, attacks on abortion providers, including arson, burglaries, and death threats, increased...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20232 min read
North Dakota Governor OKs One of Toughest U.S. Anti-Abortion Laws
North Dakota on Monday adopted one of the nation's strictest anti-abortion laws as Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation banning the...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20232 min read
DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Restore Access to Abortion Pill
The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to continue access to the abortion pill mifepristone. DOJ is acting after a federal...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 10, 20232 min read
1873 Comstock Act Cited In Court Ruling Banning Mailed Abrtion Pills
A 19th century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a court ruling that threatens access to the leading abortion drug in the U.S. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Other States May Copy Idaho's New Crime Of 'Abortion Trafficking'
Amid a flood of residents fleeing states that ban abortions to seek legal procedures or medication elsewhere, Idaho has become the first...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Oklahoma Court Narrows State's Strict Abortion Ban
The Oklahoma Legislature's near-absolute ban on abortion suffered a setback at the state's Supreme Court, which ruled that the state...
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