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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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Crime and Justice News
Mar 16, 20232 min read
Abortion Cases Raise Concerns Over Tech Companies' Role
Nebraska prosecutors relied on Facebook messages to file charges set to go to court later this month and next in a pair of test cases...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 10, 20232 min read
Abortion Laws Proposed By State Republicans Add Homicide Charges
Republican lawmakers in several states have introduced legislation proposing homicide and other criminal charges for those seeking...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Pregnant Women Sue Texas For Denying Them Abortions
Five women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or their fetuses sued the State of Texas on Monday,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 6, 20232 min read
S.C. Woman Arrested For Self-Administered Abortion
The arrest last week of a South Carolina woman accused of self-administering an abortion pill to end a pregnancy in 2021 prompted outrage...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20231 min read
Abortion Rights Groups, Law Firms Join To Help Patients
Major abortion rights organizations and private law firms have teamed up to provide legal counsel to patients and providers navigating...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Doctors Become Main Target for Upcoming Abortion Bills
Abortion bills are a top priority as state legislatures around the country coming into session. In the wake of the Supreme Court's...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 12, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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