Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Criminalizing reproduction: Outrageous; nightmarish; dystopic: Like really scary!. HL; The Crime Report: "Post Roe states advised to fight abortion like organized crime."... "A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee, which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports, as reports 'The Crime Report. "The model legislation, which would be introduced following the anticipated Supreme Court ruling against Roe v Wade, would also use organized crime statutes to charge anyone “aiding and abetting” an abortion with conspiracy under “RICO-style laws” modeled on the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act that lays out charges for activity performed “as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise,” attorneys said. The proposed bill would would make it illegal for organizations or individuals to help connect patients with abortion care and resources over the phone or online, ban websites that provide information about abortions and criminalize funding groups that pay for patient travel costs from operating in the state.


CRIMINALIZING REPRODUCTION: (Attacks on Science, Medicine and the Right To Choose): I have taken on the  theme of criminalizing reproduction - a natural theme for a Blog concerned with  flawed science in its myriad form  - as I am utterly opposed to the current movement in the United States and some other countries - towards imprisoning women and their physicians on the basis of sham science (or any other basis). Control over their reproductive lives is far too important to women in America or anywhere else so they can  participate  equally in the economic and social life of their nations without fear for  loss their freedom at the hands of political opportunists and fanatics. I will continue to follow relevant cases and the mounting wave of  legislative attacks aimed at criminalizing women who exercise their constitutional right to freedom of choice, wherever they may be.

Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Mississippi and a dozen other states have trigger laws in place designed to ban abortion within the states immediately if Roe is overturned. Model legislation like the National Right to Life Committee’s proposal aims to expand those laws and introduce new bans to the roughly half of American states amenable to far-reaching abortion restrictions.

The latest model legislation would “ensure that all parties participating in an illegal abortion are subject to enforcement” – expanding that definition to include not just individuals or groups that help provide specific care or instruction to someone seeking an abortion, but also internet providers and companies that “host or maintain a website, or provide internet service, that encourages or facilitates efforts to obtain an illegal abortion.” The model also addresses recent statements from prosecutors and other officials: the law would allow state attorneys general to adopt abortion-related criminal cases if prosecutors refuse to."

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STORY: "Post-Roe States Advised to Fight Abortion like Organized Crime," by Justice Reporter Intern Audrey Nielsen, published by The Crime Report, on June 21, 2022.

GIST: "A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee, which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports.

The model legislation, which would be introduced following the anticipated Supreme Court ruling against Roe v Wade, would also use organized crime statutes to charge anyone “aiding and abetting” an abortion with conspiracy under “RICO-style laws” modeled on the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act that lays out charges for activity performed “as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise,” attorneys said.

The proposed bill would would make it illegal for organizations or individuals to help connect patients with abortion care and resources over the phone or online, ban websites that provide information about abortions and criminalize funding groups that pay for patient travel costs from operating in the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule this summer to either maintain the 14th Amendment right to privacy protections for abortion established by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey or radically curb abortion rights, potentially paving the way for states to regulate or ban abortion entirely.

The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization within weeks.

The Mississippi case deals with a challenge to a law that banned abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy or later, the kind of state legislation rejected by the justices in Casey.

A draft opinion on Dobbs leaked in early May saw the majority choosing to overturn Roe’s extension of the due process clause’s privacy protections to the right to choose to have an abortion.

The entire story can be read at:

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;



SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:




FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;