feticide

"Feticide" Adds Up to 20 Years On a Murder Charge

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

October 5, 2011 - 11:35am (Print)

An Indiana man is looking at an extended prison sentence due to murdering his pregnant wife.

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Is Locking Up Pregnant Women the New Cure for State Financial Woes and Mental Health Problems?

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by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

March 30, 2011 - 3:05pm (Print)

Lawmakers in Alabama and Indiana are moving to arrest and incarcerate pregnant women with mental illness and drug addiction, and charge them with harming their fetus.  National Advocates for Pregnant Women is working to defend the basic rights of pregnant women suffering from mental illness, severe depression, or any other health problem to be treated like other human beings experiencing the same problems.

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Woman Who Tried To Commit Suicide Now Charged With Feticide

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

March 21, 2011 - 7:59am (Print)

And Indiana woman who ingested poison in a failed suicide attempt is now being charged for murder because her unborn baby died as a result.

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Help for Christine Taylor: Victim of Iowa's Feticide Law

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by Amie Newman

February 25, 2010 - 2:50pm (Print)

A group of concerned advocates rally to help Christine Taylor--the young mother accused of "attempted feticide" under Iowa's anti-choice feticide law-- put her life back together after the charges are dropped.

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Pregnant? Don't Fall Down the Stairs

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by Amie Newman

February 15, 2010 - 5:07pm (Print)

When anti-choicers conceptualize, dream up and manage to pass bills in the name of being "pro-life", there is no question they know these laws have the potential to ruin lives.
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