Tag: crime

Woman charged with threatening to kill judge who ruled against FDA approval of abortion pills

Alice Marie Pence allegedly placed the threatening phone call the day after a hearing on mifepristone was announced. By Calvin Freiburger A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly phoning a death threat to a federal judge in Texas who suspended the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone earlier this …

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Man receives life sentence for killing woman and her preborn baby

By Nancy Flanders An Ohio man has admitted to killing a 22-year-old woman and her preborn baby in May of 2022, shooting her three times in the head in front of her two-year-old son. Homicide is currently the leading cause of death among pregnant women in the U.S. According to the Herald-Star, Joshua Jerome Woodland, age 31, was sentenced …

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Women arrested on charges that she threatened to kill a federal judge who earlier this year had issued a national injunction on the use of mifepristone in chemical abortions

By Dave Andrusko Alice Marie Pence was arrested last week in Florida on charges that she threatened to kill Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Texas federal judge who earlier this year issued a national injunction on the use of mifepristone in chemical abortions. Reporting for Reuters, Brendan Pierson wrote Alice Marie Pence placed a call from Florida to the chambers of a …

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Father in jail on charges of first-degree murder in death of three-week-old son

By Dave Andrusko Noah Benjamin Bliss, 22 and the recent father of twins, was arrested at WakeMed in Raleigh, North Carolina on charges of first-degree murder of Gunner Bliss, his three-week-old son. “He also faces charges of intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury in the incident, which occurred on Oct. 6,” according to WRAL reporter Chelsea …

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1,200 suicide kits sent by Canadian man running ‘Escape Mode’ assisted suicide website

By Right to Life UK Kenneth Law, 57, of Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada, is being investigated over a series of deaths by suicide linked to poisonous substances he sent by post to people around the world.  Arrested in May, he has been charged in Canada on two counts of counselling or aiding suicide. He is also being …

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Police seek answers after newborn found dead in gas station bathroom

By Bridget Sielicki  Police in Houston, Texas, are seeking a woman they believe is connected to a newborn who was found dead in a gas station restroom in April. On April 2 at around 4:35 a.m., police and paramedics were called to the Shell gas station at 13114 South Post Oak Road when the body of …

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House Democrats use misleading reports about teen who burned, buried preborn child to scare public

By Calvin Freiburger WASHINGTON, D.C.– Democrats in Congress are seizing on a pervasive misrepresentation of a grisly child killing out of Nebraska in their attempt to turn the public against pro-life laws by claiming they subject troubled pregnant teenagers to criminal prosecution. Last week, 19-year-old Celeste Burgess was sentenced to 90 days in prison and two years’ …

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18-year-old Nebraska woman sentenced to 90 days in jail for burning the body of the baby she had aborted

By Dave Andrusko 18-year-old Celeste Burgess was sentenced last week to concealing or abandoning a dead body—the body of her 30-week-old unborn baby which she buried three different times in addition to trying to burn the baby’s remains. The northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for …

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Opponents of a bill to protect women who’ve chosen to carry their babies to term are endangering women

Editor’s note. This update was provided by WeNeedaLAW.ca Ottawa, September 28, 2016 – A private member’s bill put forward by Cathay Wagantall is receiving pushback from Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. Arthur has initiated a petition calling upon the House of Commons to oppose Bill C-225. The petition is …

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Pennsylvania man jailed for choking girlfriend who wouldn’t abort

By Calvin Freiburger A Pennsylvania man has been charged with assault and harassment for allegedly beating and choking his pregnant girlfriend because she refused to have an abortion. 21-year-old Lenworth Paul Lawrence was arrested on October 28 following an incident that began with an argument between him and his girlfriend. As the argument grew heated, …

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Mother who asphyxiated her full-term newborn sentenced to nine to 20 years in prison

By Dave Andrusko Back in August defense attorneys for Kimberly Pappas called for lesser charges than felony murder, premeditated murder, and first-degree child abuse in the death of her full-term baby whom she delivered alive in a bathroom , stuffed into a plastic tote bag, and hid inside her work desk for about a half-hour. …

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