"More than 70 countries criminalize consensual same-sex relationships, and also criminalize transgender people based on their appearance," she added.
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If Congress were to criminalize racist speech, it could criminalize a wide array of speech that is deemed insulting or demeaning.
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The Republican fight to criminalize protest tactics The Republican fight to criminalize protest tactics This segment originally aired March 14, 2017, on VICE News Tonight on HBO Since the beginning of 2017, Republicans in over 18 states have proposed bills that would criminalize certain protest tactics.
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"People are dying at the doors of Europe and the response is to criminalize the NGOs, but also to criminalize the very act of human solidarity," said Sahraoui.
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The Virginia decision, it should be noted, merely concluded that states have the constitutional right to criminalize BDSM and didn't rule as to the morality of the practice or explicitly criminalize BDSM itself.
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And when the Las Vegas City Council took up a proposal to criminalize sitting on sidewalks, sleeping in public or setting up tents, Warren criticized the ordinance as an effort to criminalize homelessness.
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Among them: an Indiana lawmaker who wants to criminalize abortion.
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Because it's pretty uncontroversial to criminalize certain actions in America.
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But that hasn't stopped lawmakers from trying to criminalize abortion.
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We can criminalize the criminal's act of broadcasting his crime.
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"Why would we want to criminalize our customers?" she said.
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"If you criminalize it, it will go underground," Alimi said.
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I mentioned that it would criminalize even jokes about santet.
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I've been clear that I'm not going to criminalize desperation.
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The government, they say, is trying to criminalize these acts.
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Do we criminalize the possession of these apps and products?
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And the Constitution would suffer if we criminalize these acts.
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South Australia is now the only state to criminalize abortion.
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They're more likely to criminalize their black students in particular.
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Part of American greatness is that we don't criminalize our politics.
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The effect is both to criminalize bad sex and trivialize rape.
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"If there's no meaningful choice; you can't criminalize that," Colgan said.
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But others have concerns over the push to criminalize sexual deception.
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We don't need another reason for them to further criminalize us.
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Who has progressive policies that won't needlessly criminalize people of color?
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In Alabama, the State Senate is poised to criminalize the procedure.
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They are gunning to end Roe, criminalize abortion and punish women.
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Democrats promised legislation that would criminalize obstruction of the state auditor.
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Agency, and suggested Ireland might criminalize the buying of sex. Direct
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A bill is pending in Parliament to formally criminalize the practice.
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About 80 percent of Americans don't want to criminalize it again.
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But in fact, his administration's plan is to basically criminalize it.
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We need a more sensible, compassionate immigration system that doesn't criminalize desperation.
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We must end government policies that criminalize and profile communities of color.
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HIV criminalization laws are not meant to indiscriminately criminalize everyone with HIV.
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Many other states have laws that criminalize drug use by pregnant women.
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Cyberbullying, where, you know, they&aposre not trying to criminalize criminal kids.
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Critics say the bill would aggressively criminalize even non-criminal undocumented immigrants.
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To criminalize the expression of that right is profoundly cruel and inhumane.
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"We are not going to criminalize people for being poor," he said.
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Congress has a duty to investigate your efforts to criminalize scientific dissent.
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A bill that would criminalize revenge porn passed the House on Wednesday.
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It's the government's prerogative to criminalize immigration or "catch and release" migrants.
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FARA doesn't criminalize any conduct by representatives of foreign individuals and governments.
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Contrary to the ACLU, the bill would not criminalize participation in BDS.
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A group of German states are already drafting legislation to criminalize upskirting.
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But we don't need to broadly criminalize teen cruelty to do that.
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Laws that criminalize "immoral" behavior in Morocco and elsewhere aren't about ethics.
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And it is a difficult case; we don't want to criminalize speech.
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That includes introducing a new law to criminalize officials illegally enriching themselves.
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The Republican strategy to obstruct and criminalize abortion, by overturning Roe v.
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Wade, overturning the decision wouldn't criminalize abortion -- but it would allow states to.
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Wade, has passed a bill that, if signed into law, would criminalize abortion.
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Yet Texas is not the only state to criminalize HIV in this manner.
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NAIROBI — Kenya's high court has upheld colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex.
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Abigail's case has seen activists and lawmakers push to criminalize rape by fraud.
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"If people want to criminalize abortion, then do that out front," says Marshall.
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"This isn't a state where...we criminalize diversity; we celebrate diversity," Newsom said.
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He proposes legislation to criminalize the "spreading of lies" to destabilize the country.
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The report urged all countries to criminalize "medicalized FGM" and cross-border FGM.
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Connecticut, which held that a state could not criminalize couples for using contraception.
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Several states criminalize spitting and biting, which carry no known risk of infection.
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As the rules stand, Glass said, they criminalize kids simply for being themselves.
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Separate aspects of laws at both the state and federal level criminalize drugs.
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And they've also faced efforts by politicians to, in effect, criminalize their work.
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And then they respond with harsher laws that criminalize black and brown kids.
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But there are subtler ways states try to criminalize this method of abortion.
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Someday, they want to challenge laws that criminalize adultery and cohabitation, Mullins said.
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Several other countries have enacted bans or attempted to criminalize full-face veils.
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"We deal with incidents proportionately and obviously do not criminalize children," he said.
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This is why perpetrators work so hard to propagandize, criminalize, and dehumanize the Other.
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In February, for example, New York state assembly passed legislation to criminalize revenge porn.
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It alarmed free speech advocates, who say it threatens to criminalize legitimate journalistic practices.
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It is entirely proper to criminalize actual threats, incitement to violence, and the like.
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It costs two to three times more to criminalize rather than support the homeless.
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Raich that the federal government is allowed to criminalize producing and using homegrown marijuana.
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Massachusetts is one of 10 states without laws that criminalize encouraging or assisting suicide.
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The regulations also criminalize any failure by government departments to carry out the plan.
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We have to stop trying to criminalize non-disclosure payments for perfectly legal acts.
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It would criminalize camping or sleeping in public areas in parts of the city.
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More than 30 countries in Africa currently have laws that criminalize homosexuality, CNN reported.
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Affirmative consent Spain could become the latest country to criminalize sex without affirmative consent.
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Missouri's "Megan's Law" was implemented following the tragedy to criminalize harassment on the Internet.
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Wade would not criminalize abortion, but would leave the question up to the states.
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But other Western countries like England and Germany, indeed most countries, criminalize unlawful entries.
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The lower house of India's parliament voted to further criminalize the practice in December.
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Then there are the brothel laws, which criminalize two or more people working together.
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Thousands of Polish women are protesting a proposal to criminalize and ban all abortions.
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More than 30 African nations still criminalize gay sex, some with the death penalty.
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We've finally been able to get the New York State legislature to criminalize bots.
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Press freedom groups fear the allegations are an attempt to criminalize routine reporting methods.
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"execute" their living children—have passed or introduced state laws that criminalize abortion after
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Not until the 20th century did international law even bother to criminalize aggressive war.
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Critics of the proposals say they could criminalize transgender people who use public restrooms.
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They don't like his demeanor, and so they've sort of decided to criminalize politics.
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That's not to say cities no longer criminalize any behavior resulting from homelessness, though.
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"We are not trying to criminalize ordinary politics," he said in a 2015 speech.
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Still, however, laws that criminalize of pregnant people could put women in real danger.
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His lawyers contended that Parliament had never intended to criminalize oral sex with animals.
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To the Editor: Re "Alabama Seeks to Criminalize Most Abortions" (front page, May 9): It was distressing to read about the bill in Alabama that would effectively criminalize virtually all abortions in the state at all stages of pregnancy, beginning at conception.
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Labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization is, in essence, asking the US government to criminalize a political party that is pretty popular in much of the Middle East — and to join an unpalatable shortlist of regimes that criminalize them as well.
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HAN: Yeah but to criminalize people seeking asylum is where I draw the line here.
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"Legislators are supposed to honor the will of the people, not criminalize it," she added.
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Or legislators could create new laws to criminalize the amplification of violence on social media.
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Mary Fallin on Friday vetoed a bill that would criminalize abortion procedures in the state.
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Only 16 countries in the region have amended their penal codes to specifically criminalize femicide.
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Linking anger to depression may also make it harder to criminalize black youth for it.
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Failing to mention that Stalin would criminalize abortion 16 years later, Meaney ploughs straight ahead.
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But we also oppose efforts to criminalize undercover investigations, regardless of the investigators' ultimate motives.
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A handful of states even criminalize the act of faithless voting through fines or misdemeanors.
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A few countries have introduced legislation to criminalize acts of violence against women in politics.
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The same goes for not offering the Pride reaction in countries that criminalize being queer.
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Historians may ultimately see this as little more than an effort to criminalize political animosity.
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"These charges were expected as part of an effort to criminalize Lula," Mr. Falcão said.
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Legislators in Indiana and Iowa have also considered bills to criminalize blocking streets during protests.
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Governments have never fought so hard to obstruct and criminalize life-saving acts towards migrants.
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So we have to ask, what kind of people want to re-criminalize cannabis today?
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Alabama's is one of the most aggressive ever in the U.S., aiming to criminalize abortion.
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Thirty-two of Africa's 54 nations still have laws that criminalize consensual, same-sex conduct.
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JPMorgan's lawyers urged prosecutors not to criminalize hiring practices that were common in the region.
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Both states have laws that would criminalize abortion if the Supreme Court upends the ruling.
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State legislatures and courts have made moves across the country to criminalize abortion for women.
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The laws regulate the domestic ivory market and criminalize the sale of African elephant ivory.
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There's a lot of research and data that shows black kids are much more likely to be affected by schools' punitive disciplinary policies: So schools aren't just more likely to criminalize their students nowadays; they're more likely to criminalize their black students in particular.
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The UK is also considering changing domestic law to criminalize the re-identification of anonymous data.
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These laws, like the HB2 law, stigmatize trans people and criminalize a population that's already criminalized.
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Photo: Rory Lancman/FlickrIn November, the New York City Council unanimously voted to criminalize revenge porn.
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It&aposs very dangerous when we criminalize political difference, which are your words and not mine?
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The First Amendment limits the US government's power to ban or criminalize certain kinds of speech.
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You criminalize ecological activists — see the five new cases against Alexandra Koroleva, the cochair of Ecodefense.
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Protesting #Ohio SB 145, which would *criminalize* the most common form of 2nd trimester abortions. pic.twitter.
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Organizers penned an open letter to the president, asking him to criminalize mob violence and lynching.
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"The government will seek to criminalize and change legislation, but that can take years," said Winstock.
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British colonial-era laws in Kenya criminalize gay sex with up to 14 years in jail.
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More than 50 countries, including the United States, Nepal, Britain and South Africa, criminalize marital rape.
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The report identified 72 nations that still criminalize homosexuality, including eight where it's punishable by death.
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The companies are also asking to criminalize copyright-infringing video streaming—highly relevant to Lackman's situation.
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Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) recently introduced the Intimate Privacy Protection Act (IPPA) to criminalize revenge porn.
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Among them was the Children's Weapon Accident Prevention Act, which would criminalize storing a gun improperly.
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Papadopoulos' wife has suggested prosecutors took advantage of her husband to criminalize conduct that wasn't criminal.
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Both existing child pornography laws and new sexting-specific laws criminalize a common behavior among teenagers.
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Yemeni law does not set a legal age for marriage, nor does it criminalize marital rape.
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But some worry it could set a precedent to criminalize future acts of national-security journalism.
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It called the measure a disproportionate reaction designed to criminalize humanitarian and medical missions at sea.
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A bill to be considered by Ireland's Senate on Tuesday would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements.
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The Act will set out laws that criminalize more of the current behavior of ticket scalpers.
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Adding a good Samaritan provision to a bill that is aimed to criminalize is hardly reassuring.
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Around the world, more than half of the nations that criminalize homosexuality were once British possessions.
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If Tennessee wants to criminalize people, let them be bad actors who engage in voter suppression.
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Twenty-three of these states criminalize non-disclosure of status to sexual or needle-sharing partners.
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"The time to criminalize this horrific form of abuse is now," Schneiderman said at the time.
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But there's also a lot of research and data that shows black kids are much more likely to be affected by schools' punitive disciplinary policies: So schools aren't just more likely to criminalize their students nowadays; they're more likely to criminalize their black students in particular.
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The House is voting today on a bill that would criminalize abortion at 2200 weeks or later.
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Ireland, like many countries in the world that criminalize sex work, is incredibly dangerous for sex workers.
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The Metropolitan Police Department's "go-go report" of where bands were playing helped criminalize go-go culture.
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These arrests happen despite the fact that current law doesn't specifically criminalize same-sex intercourse in Egypt.
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Lebanon's laws prohibit "unnatural" sex, without giving further definition, which has been used to criminalize gay sex.
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And if you demonize this drug and you criminalize it, you&aposre going to do three things.
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Human Rights Watch has said the legislation was being used to criminalize free expression and peaceful dissent.
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A separate failed attempt to criminalize flag burning by statute, in 2006, was supported by then-Sen.
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But the law is vague and some people fear a more extreme president could criminalize homosexuality outright.
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That bill would criminalize synthetic media that is broadcast or shared as an authentic video or image.
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Last year, Malaysia passed a law on sexual offences against children but did not criminalize child marriage.
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On August 9, Nepal's Parliament passed a bill that would criminalize the banishment of women during menstruation.
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That could have implications for the nation's controversial laws that criminalize knowingly exposing another person to HIV.
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That's because these laws essentially criminalize knowing your status, according to policy experts and public health researchers.
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Let's hope he follows through on his promises to support laws that don't criminalize law-abiding citizens.
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If we are going to criminalize politics, why spare one committee from the opprobrium heaped on others?
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The alternative to the new limits, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, would be to criminalize routine political behavior.
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But the legal case against him would criminalize routine methods used by investigative and national-security reporters.
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According to the CDC, 25 states criminalize behaviors that pose "low or negligible risk" of HIV transmission.
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During his time as congressman, Pence repeatedly voted for measures that would criminalize or even ban abortion.
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You would still, obviously, criminalize someone who exploited a minor or forcing another adult into this work.
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This time, legislators want to criminalize doctors who don't care for children "born alive" during an abortion.
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The bill would criminalize the procedure and is intended to be a direct challenge to Roe v.
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Lawmakers there are seeking to criminalize the procedure and effectively ban abortions at every stage of pregnancy.
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The government, he said, was attempting to "criminalize failure" — presenting normal startup setbacks as evidence of fraud.
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In that case, I won't have to worry about the president trying to criminalize his political opponent.
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While some states criminalize the act of convincing people to commit suicide, Massachusetts has no such law.
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The bills would do the same thing: criminalize the medical professional who treats children with gender dysphoria.
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Arresting people for the illegal use and distribution of drugs tends to criminalize the disease of addiction.
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Critics have raised concerns about how DNA databases can further criminalize communities, especially those who are marginalized.
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We need to repeal laws and regulations that discriminate against or even criminalize people living with HIV.
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JARRETT: Mueller seems to want to criminalize a legitimate conversation the president is having with-- (CROSSTALK) HANNITY: Bingo.
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The incident prompted Connecticut to change its laws so as to criminalize this conduct as a sexual assault.
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The attempt to criminalize abortions comes after previous attempts to ban abortion at eight weeks in the state.
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According to Forst, European countries aren't just looking to criminalize volunteers and activists like Landry and Montes Mier.
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Israeli law does not criminalize political hate speech, unlike hate speech directed at racial, ethnic and religious groups.
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Kenya's High Court ruled to uphold laws that criminalize gay sex and relationships on Friday, the BBC reports.
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Conservative groups and politicians have urged parliament to revise the national criminal code to criminalize same-sex relations.
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Some places, like Argentina and Brazil, do not specifically criminalize incestuous acts but prohibit marriage between lineal relatives.
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Such a declaration might criminalize any support for WikiLeaks, or heighten penalties for sharing information with the group.
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"This has all been engineered to criminalize the clerics," said Novel Bamukmin, head of the FPI's Jakarta chapter.
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A battery of laws that effectively criminalize homelessness is sweeping the nation, embraced by places like Orlando, Fla.
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Others argue that Democrats are twisting the facts to criminalize foreign policy out of animus for Mr. Trump.
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Germany has specific hate speech laws which criminalize certain types of speech, such as incitement to racial violence.
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Rick Perry and others, we have seen vague criminal statutes stretched in an effort to criminalize political differences.
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While these types of laws aren't currently able to criminalize abortion, they would ban abortion if Roe v.
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These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to "inciting" or "intimidating" others based on race or religion.
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If you think about trying to criminalize [street harassment], though, think about how difficult it's going to be.
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The person selling the powder could give advice on harm minimization and you certainly wouldn't criminalize users either.
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No equivalent laws criminalize the failure to disclose diseases that are much easier to transmit, such as herpes.
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"We're not going to stop sexual violence by continuing to criminalize people," said Mariame Kaba of Survived & Punished.
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" Smith adds: "When you criminalize curb-crawling, the client is jumpy and saying 'Get into my car quickly.
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Bipartisan legislation was also introduced earlier this year that would federally criminalize sharing sexually explicit images without consent.
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You do not need to incarcerate and criminalize people in order to get these weapons off our streets.
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In Texas, officials are attempting to further criminalize eligible voters for inadvertent errors often caused by language barriers.
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History tells us that the most likely path they'll take is to criminalize being transgender in the military.
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He thinks that laws that criminalize failure to disclose HIV status to a sexual partner should be overturned.
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And unfortunately by upholding limits on contributions, Buckley allowed government to criminalize aspects of private, ordinary political discourse.
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The key to convicting Islamic terrorists in Latin America is to criminalize their membership in foreign terrorist organizations.
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The problem is, once you start delegitimizing one sort of protest, it's very easy to criminalize all dissent.
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Of the more than 70 countries globally that criminalize homosexuality, more than half were once under British dominion.
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"In California, we decided it was best to regulate, not criminalize, cannabis," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
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They also say it will criminalize small businesses that sell tobacco products and that the proposed fines are excessive.
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"If you criminalize clients, it's not going to end demand," she outlined in an interview with the Evening Times .
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And the consensus thinking there is that there aren&apost very many of any states that would criminalize abortion.
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The law was passed to criminalize computer hacking in the days of mainframes, before public computer networks really existed.
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Advocates said some of the proposals would criminalize conversations online that otherwise would be protected under the countries' constitutions.
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There are nonprofits and courts and lawyers, that monetize the trafficking narrative, and try to criminalize the entire ecosystem.
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At the time, lobbyists and think tankers feared the case could criminalize the exchange of sensitive national security information.
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Unfortunately, a religious minority has put pressure on the county to criminalize legal sex work and ban our brothels.
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While no US laws currently criminalize BDSM, it's still a crime to harm others, regardless of whether they consent.
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Earlier this month, Miranda pleaded for state assembly to criminalize the bots, but his crusade hasn't been entirely successful.
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Jackie Speier, has introduced a bill seeking to criminalize revenge porn and protect the privacy of women like Chrissy.
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Pinsent Masons runs offices in 13 nations including countries such as Qatar and Singapore that still criminalize gay sex.
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The Internet has been on fire in recent months over two court decisions that threaten to criminalize password sharing.
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At least 15 countries criminalize people whose gender expression is perceived to be at odds with their birth sex.
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However, security research suffers under a shadow of laws and policies that can discourage or even criminalize valuable work.
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"We need to criminalize revenge porn across all 50 states and have a federal law, as well," she said.
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"The ridiculous charge of illegal political activities is Duterte's way of saying he wants to criminalize criticisms," he said.
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In response, well-known baseball sports agent, Scott Boras, called for Congress to criminalize racist comments at sporting events.
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The Prime Minister, who has blasted climate activism as "economic sabotage," has also threatened to criminalize the growing protests.
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Historically, Democrats have resisted such efforts to stretch the criminal code to criminalize broader and broader areas of conduct.
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Few things could be more corrosive to free government than wielding the powers of state to criminalize political opposition.
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And Indiana was among nearly two dozen states to criminalize the distribution or possession of syringes without a prescription.
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Texas (2003), which held that the government cannot criminalize intimate sexual conduct between same-sex partners, and Obergefell v.
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The language, they say, is dangerously broad and could criminalize sharing useful information simply because it's adjacent to prostitution.
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Mr. Temer and his allies in Congress have called the cases an effort by Mr. Janot to criminalize politics.
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Trump has said that if Roe is overturned as he wishes, the states would decide whether to criminalize abortion.
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Meanwhile, Brazil's Senate is also considering a bill that would criminalize discrimination based on someone's sexual orientation or gender.
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As a step toward making our justice system more fair and modern, let's rethink how we criminalize drug use.
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But we seem to be nowhere near the point of upending the ways in which we criminalize personal dispute.
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He is a vocal critic of India's colonial-era law that criminalize consensual sexual relations between same sex adults.
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But we also need to understand who these attacks on reproductive freedom are designed to control, dehumanize and criminalize.
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Policies and practices that were used to criminalize communities of color have been fully integrated into the educational process.
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"The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness," Warren said on the steps of the courthouse.
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However, it said it didn't criminalize every case of salary non-payment, especially those borne out of business failure.
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They also say the bill will only criminalize normal exchanges with China, something Tsai and the DPP have denied.
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But many of the clubs have folded, often after violating regulations that critics say effectively criminalize most nonindustrial activities.
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Each day I was harassed by police and park rangers because of the town's aggressive policies that criminalize homelessness.
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Craven says that curfew and truancy laws criminalize normal juvenile behavior, unnecessarily introducing youth into the criminal justice system.
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Provisions in the act have been used at different periods to criminalize, for example, security research and independent repair.
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A glimpse of his Twitter account reveals someone desperate to criminalize dissent, especially by means of leaking government information.
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" "I am terrified of what will happen in the summer months if Salvini continues to criminalize search and rescue crews.
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This process starts at the very top, with a large and fast-growing body of laws that effectively criminalize homelessness.
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"This is a political persecution, a systematic attempt to criminalize the desire for independence," lawyer Aamer Anwar told BBC radio.
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Passing the Equality Act and amending the Fair Housing Act to criminalize discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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When the Alabama state House passed a law this week to criminalize abortion in almost all circumstances, Democratic state Rep.
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Three states—Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina—have laws that specifically criminalize pregnant women and new mothers who use drugs.
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The French National Assembly this week moved to criminalize websites that spread "misinformation" about abortions and spread pro-life propaganda.
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"Regimes change but (the) blasphemy law has always been used by majority groups to discriminate or criminalize others," Afrianty said.
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Worse, 48 percent would criminalize "hate speech" — however one defines that term — with most of those supporting possible jail time.
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Abortion rights supporters worry that the amendment could be used to criminalize some forms of in-vitro fertilization and contraception.
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According to ILGA, there are 70 countries that still criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults to varying extents.
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The Psychoactive Substances Act introduced in May this year outlawed a raft of substances, but crucially did not criminalize possession.
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Now, though, scientists and kratom advocates worry that the flurry of announcements mark a renewed push to criminalize the plant.
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It's also about us opposing the police getting the authority to criminalize a woman based on the way she looks.
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Ivory Coast is one of the few African countries where same-sex acts are legal and have never been criminalize.
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More than 70 countries criminalize gay sex, most of them Muslim countries or former British colonies, according to advocacy groups.
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"In California, we decided it was best to regulate, not criminalize, cannabis," Becerra said in a statement earlier this month.
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After a unanimous vote in parliament to criminalize rape, President Macky Sall signed the decree into law on Jan. 10.
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Last month, California became the first US state to criminalize the use of deepfakes in political campaign promotion and advertising.
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Among the recommendations made, the F.A.T.F. noted Iran should "adequately" criminalize terrorism financing and ratify United Nations antiterrorism financing conventions.
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Washington (CNN)A bill that would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy failed to advance Monday in the Senate.
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To make matters worse, some European leaders have sought to criminalize the very act of rescuing asylum seekers at sea.
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Critics alleged that such measures along with prosecuting gang members and criminalize dialogue with them will only made things worse.
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Lawyers for Patel argued in court that the law was "passed to protect pregnant women from violence," not to criminalize abortion.
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Wade, criminalize abortion, gut the Affordable Care Act, roll back LGBTQ rights, end affirmative action, and chip away at voting rights.
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That trial drew widespread attention over concern that it represented an effort by the Trump administration to criminalize humanitarian aid work.
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READ: The Katie Hill sex misconduct scandal keeps getting worse Forty-six states plus D.C. criminalize the distribution of revenge porn.
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Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) introduced a bill to criminalize the malicious creation and distribution of deepfakes — the first of its kind.
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Encryption provides a crucial check on the government's ability to invade — and criminalize — the private and political lives of marginalized communities.
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Immigration: Vocal critic of Trump's border wall and said U.S. should not criminalize migrants who request asylum between ports of entry.
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Ecuador's approach to violence reduction is about as far away as you can get from America's, which tends to criminalize gangs.
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As it stands, 70 countries across continents criminalize same-sex sexual activity, as International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Association World reports.
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Opposition leaders said the legislative changes would effectively criminalize political activity and turn Tanzania into "a de facto one-party state".
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I have been tough on dopers, and even called for a law to criminalize doping and to punish dopers including imprisonment.
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Even, just to consider the child's hair and cornrows, and how often people try to police black hair and criminalize it.
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Let's just criminalize political differences like any good banana republic: Show me the man, and I will show you the crime.
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He is a proud and explicit theocrat, who wants to criminalize homosexuality and make Christian doctrine the law of the land.
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The government will also move to criminalize hoax claims before parliament rises for a two-week holiday on Thursday, Morrison said.
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His M.O. is to figure out ways to criminalize aspects of immigrant life to create more opportunities for interception by police.
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Israel and the United States say the law could criminalize truthful scholarship on the role some Poles played in German crimes.
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There are his repeated efforts to criminalize his political opponents — first Hillary Clinton, now Joe Biden — by inducing official federal investigations.
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To go back to the way we used to treat this—when somebody comes across the border not to criminalize desperation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Germany will take steps to criminalize upskirting, the justice minister announced on Thursday, calling the behavior "disgusting".
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Ascending to the next rung on the ladder of escalation requires capitalizing on other sources of overreaction to criminalize that help.
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For decades, efforts have been underway to criminalize every obnoxious or problematic social interaction between K-12 kids in American schools.
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However, the Espionage Act and several other federal laws do criminalize unauthorized disclosures about certain national security information, like surveillance secrets.
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Others suggested that the red flag law was just a smokescreen for Democrats to go after and criminalize conservative gun owners.
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"I think it really shows who has the power in our democracy," Bleakley said of Morrison's proposal to criminalize secondary boycotts.
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A narrow reading of the term "thing of value" that does not criminalize mere information avoids any potential First Amendment problem.
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"We are not trying to criminalize ordinary politics," Mr. Bharara said in a speech at New York Law School in 2015.
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This is dangerous, as it tends to criminalize disability without making a meaningful impact on gun violence and other safety issues.
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Hungarian civic groups are asking the government to drop a draft bill seeking to criminalize their work with asylum-seekers and refugees.
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"Prosecutors and judges are free to criminalize any act in accordance with their own interpretation of precepts of Islamic law," notes HRW.
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Rarely do Supreme Court decisions legalize or criminalize something outright; they present constitutional and statutory regulations in which states have to operate.
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Yet, those fighting to criminalize nonconsensual porn at an national level worry about the detrimental effects of a Kardashian revenge porn battle.
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"Local ordinances and state laws criminalize disability," Ressl-Moyer says, noting that the legal system is stacked against disability from the start.
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Maryland law professors and state legislators in silhouette at a press conference announcing a bill that would criminalize revenge porn in 2013.
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Legislation signed into law by Alabama's governor would criminalize all abortions except in cases where a woman's health is at serious risk.
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"Clearly, the entire purpose of this policy is deterrence, to penalize and criminalize people seeking protection in the United States," Govindaiah said.
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Wade — the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide — the states will likely inherit all the power to legalize or criminalize abortion.
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New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
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"Smells of #FalseFlag in order to to continue to delegitimize investigation and to eventually CRIMINALIZE investigators in my view," wrote one user.
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The effort to harass and criminalize some of our hardest workers will have a devastating impact on our state's vaunted agriculture industry.
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Indonesia's parliament is currently debating revisions to the national criminal code that could criminalize all sex outside marriage, including same-sex relations.
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But many states still criminalize the procedure if it's not conducted in a medical setting and/or by a licensed medical provider.
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If the Heartbeat Bill passes, it would criminalize abortion after six weeks and threaten doctors who perform such abortions with jail time.
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In October, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize abortions after 193 weeks of pregnancy across the country.
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Mr. Pence's positions on abortion, reflected in his long crusade to criminalize the safe and common procedure nationwide, hardly fit that description.
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Conservative politicians are campaigning to amend the criminal code, which is up for its five-year review, to criminalize same-sex relations.
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"This is another draconian measure to actually criminalize dissent in the United States," said Scott Crow, a former Antifa organizer and author.
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Abortion-rights supporters in Alabama worry that the amendment could be used to criminalize some forms of in-vitro fertilization and contraception.
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She wants to know why, despite outcry from her colleagues, the UK may be lurching towards legislation that would criminalize buying sex.
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LBGTQ individuals, the report says, were attacked in 20 countries, with 56% of cases registered in countries that do not criminalize homosexuality.
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Spencer Woodman at the Intercept recently reported that lawmakers in eight states have proposed bills that would criminalize or curtail peaceful protest.
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Similar concerns have been raised about the use of gang injunctions that criminalize people based on their alleged connection to a gang.
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The bill would effectively ban most abortions from conception on and would criminalize the procedure for doctors, according to the Times report.
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Alabama's measure would effectively ban most abortions at every stage of pregnancy, from conception on, and would criminalize the procedure for doctors.
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Sobered by the ferocity of nationalist passions, he's wary of idealistic efforts to criminalize warfare and supplant power politics with international law.
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Did you see that Elizabeth Warren proposed yesterday to criminalize "disinformation" that is spread online as it relates to voting and elections?
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"We cannot criminalize poverty in this way – it is cruel, and is not the goal of our criminal justice system," Biaggi said.
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Now that President Trump has unveiled his plan to criminalize us and make us live in fear, entire communities are under threat.
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The companies that run them have lobbied for "ag-gag" laws that criminalize dissemination of video and photos from within their walls.
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Freedom of speech is under assault worldwide, as authoritarian governments shrink the space for dissent and further criminalize various forms of expression.
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But it will help — by limiting the discretion cops and other actors in law enforcement can use to disproportionately criminalize black people.
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Beyond our borders, over 70 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex acts, and in 11 of them, punishments include the death penalty.
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Thirty-two of Africa's 54 nations have laws that criminalize consensual, same-sex conduct, according to Human Rights Watch, with varying provisions.
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The new initiative is still in its planning stages, but will reportedly push countries that still criminalize homosexuality to change their laws.
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Migrant rights workers say the two arrests were part of a growing effort, spearheaded by Washington, to criminalize the protection of immigrants.
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Others say the practice is ethically dubious and worry that the federal government will use the biological data to later criminalize immigrants.
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"Any attempt to criminalize or control self-managed abortion is illegitimate and unconstitutional," said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel at If/When/How.
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But in eight states — states that hosted dozens of those successful marches — Republican lawmakers are working to criminalize the act of peaceful protest.
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Wade is overturned, North Dakota is already prepared to fully criminalize abortion, removing even the limited options currently available to pregnant North Dakotans.
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A rarity in Asia Hong Kong is one of the few places in Asia that does not criminalize human trafficking and forced labor.
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Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduced a bill to criminalize revenge porn—the posting of nude or sexually explicit photographs without the subject's permission.
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As with many EU countries, Germany has specific hate speech laws that criminalize certain types of speech, such as incitement to racial violence.
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Someone important has noticed what we're doing, so we need to hurry up and finish before they find a way to criminalize ingenuity.
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Trump, on the other hand, today supports stop and frisk tactics that basically criminalize black bodies through public policy -- and were ruled unconstitutional.
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We kind of look to criminalize political behavior when the first accountability should be up to the American people through their elected representatives.
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In recent years, a variety of companies have broadly taken stances on revenge porn, and state law has moved to criminalize this behavior.
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Abortion-rights activists argue that rolling back 45 years of legal precedent to criminalize abortion would endanger women who seek dangerous illegal abortions.
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Secular Indonesia is predominantly Muslim but ultra-conservative Aceh is the only province to follow sharia, or Islamic law, and criminalize gay sex.
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They voiced concern that the broad interpretation of U.S. anti-corruption law used by federal prosecutors could criminalize numerous commonplace actions by politicians.
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The Lagos State government escalated the situation in February when it submitted a draft law which sought to criminalize the informal water sector.
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"This bill would effectively outlaw abortion and criminalize physicians that provide this care to their patients," said Kellie Copeland, the group's executive director.
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Oklahoma's proposal to criminalize abortion may be the most stringent, but it is one of many new measures that continue in conservative states.
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And though the bill appears to criminalize only the actions of doctors, it is by no means clear that women would escape prosecution.
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Kentucky lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Tuesday in favor of passing a bill to criminalize performing a common abortion method after 11 weeks of pregnancy.
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Soliciting laws criminalize people who work on the streets, but rather than end streetwalking, Lee says they just make the job more dangerous.
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Republican lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday in the Wisconsin legislature that would criminalize first-time drunken driving offenses in the state. Rep.
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This Hispanic Heritage Month, we must all unite and redouble our resolve to resist efforts to alienate, marginalize and criminalize the Latino community.
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More than half of the 70 or so countries that criminalize gay sex are former colonies that inherited those laws from the British.
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The result of all this is that faced with an erratic and even dangerous president, we try to criminalize or medicalize his actions.
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Some in the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are abusing their power to criminalize the routine practices of politics and government.
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Among Commonwealth countries, 47 have legislation, but 33 do not explicitly criminalize marital rape and only nine offer broad protections for LGBT people.
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" They criminalize prescribing "puberty-blocking medication to stop normal puberty; supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females; or supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males.
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Indeed, there is a fine line between hard-edged business or legal negotiations and extortion, and prosecutors should hesitate to criminalize aggressive tactics.
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The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex association reports 13 Asian nations, in which they include the Middle East, criminalize homosexual relationships.
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This almost certainly explains why opponents of B.D.S. are now turning to the heavy hand of the state to criminalize support for it.
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"Because if you have a law that will criminalize this particular age bracket, then the criminals will not use them," Mr. Panelo said.
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Canada is a signatory to three international treaties that require countries to criminalize recreational marijuana, and will likely need to amend its involvement.
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Arizona is trying to pass a law to criminalize riots that haven't happened yet Arizona is trying to pass a law to criminalize riots that haven't happened yet The Arizona state Senate passed a bill that would criminally charge people and seize their assets if they're believed to be associated with, planning, or participating in a demonstration that ends up becoming violent.
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"We're going to criminalize certain activities in this next year to reflect the seriousness that we're going to take on certain behaviors," Shanahan said.
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No tariff can prevent or criminalize migrants fleeing climate change, and perhaps we, as a nation of immigrants, should begin to think about that.
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Dozens of countries still criminalize homosexuality, and no war crimes tribunal has ever considered the question of whether it's illegal to kill LGBT people.
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When lawmakers criminalize trans women of color's means of survival, sex workers have told them, lawmakers expose them to further discrimination, harassment and violence.
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Authoritarian regimes have a tendency to criminalize opposition or dissent; the taboo, in theory, helps prevent free societies from falling into the same habit.
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Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Peru and (somewhat surprisingly) North Korea are just some of the countries that don't criminalize marijuana use.
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The new bill would take that preposterous rationale one step further and criminalize an act as harmless and natural as holding hands in public.
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Case in point: Colorado has legalized marijuana for users over the age of 21, though all of its neighbors still criminalize the green bud.
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"Age of consent laws tend to allow consent after age 16, but child pornography laws still criminalize images of anyone under 18," Finkelhor clarified.
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In February of 2013 I testified before the Maryland General Assembly's House committee in support of a bill that would criminalize non-consensual pornography.
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It is hard to believe anyone would seek to criminalize the way in which one facility was impacted by such a crushing natural disaster.
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Sessions' escalating, and misleading, rhetoric is a red herring, part of the continuing efforts of this administration to criminalize and demonize Central American refugees.
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"We are very concerned about laws that criminalize the status of indigency," said Daniel M. Gluck, the legal director of the A.C.L.U. of Hawaii.
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The proposals would ban all foreign political donations, criminalize attempts by foreign actors to influence the government, and give law enforcement agencies greater powers.
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JPMorgan's lawyers also urged prosecutors not to criminalize hiring practices — including something as simple as awarding an internship — that were common in the region.
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The Trump regime was given the keys to the nation's capital by white evangelicals mostly on the basis of a promise to criminalize abortion.
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This brings into sharp relief the seeming anomaly that, although federal law defines domestic terrorism, it does not criminalize it — at least, as such.
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As top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted in 85033, President Nixon declared the War on Drugs as a pretext to criminalize people of color.
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There is seemingly no hurry to deal with the people criminalized by their involvement with this plant, simply a push to criminalize more people.
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Terminations are also banned after 20 weeks based on pseudoscience about fetal pain, and a state lawmaker recently introduced a bill to criminalize abortion.
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It is clear that people who want to legally oppress trans Americans are more than happy to criminalize transgender people for simply being themselves.
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In short: I think the adjective "wanton" is a patriarchal trap, one that has long been used to stigmatize (if not criminalize) feminine sexuality.
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Twenty states have put forward legislation that would criminalize doctors who offer life-saving treatments like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to transgender minors.
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I think we had a couple of first steps — first, to remind people of Donald Trump's litmus test to criminalize abortion and punish women.
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"Prosecutors and judges are free to criminalize any act in accordance with their own interpretation of precepts of Islamic law," notes Human Rights Watch.
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In order to truly deter online harassment, she says, lawmakers need to specify what types of online behaviors aren't acceptable — and then criminalize them.
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If passed, the bill would criminalize not only same-sex sexual activity but also any support of gay rights, including raising a rainbow flag.
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"[A] growing number of Democrats [including Elizabeth Warren] favor eliminating the laws that criminalize illegal entry — even as a misdemeanor," the N.Y. Times reports.
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That is, in addition to everything else, a menthol ban—cigarette or e-cigarette—could disproportionately criminalize the actions or preferences of Black people.
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To violate statutes that criminalize lying to Congress and perjury, it is not enough to say something that turns out to be demonstrably false.
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Several states have passed — and many others have considered — so-called "ag gag" laws, which criminalize the undercover investigations that reveal abuses on farms.
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Thailand also has stringent lèse-majesté laws that criminalize insults to the monarchy, and prosecutions of this crime have increased significantly in recent years.
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While 10 countries consider "same-sex sexual relations" crimes punishable by death, nine American states criminalize L.G.B.T.Q. people and their behavior in some way.
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Police continue to misidentify transgender murder victims, neglect to identify their deaths as hate crimes, and criminalize trans people based on prejudice and stereotypes.
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And in April 2016, an Oklahoma court ruled that state law failed to criminalize oral sex with an individual who is unconscious from drinking.
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Missouri has become the latest state to pass a restrictive policy that would criminalize abortion after eight weeks, following the footsteps of Alabama and Georgia.
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The greatest lifeline we have in this desperate situation is the fact that people are refusing to acquiesce to their governments' efforts to criminalize compassion.
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"Until this point, astonishingly and dangerously, no criminal offense in Australia existed to criminalize economic espionage of the type defined in this bill," Porter said.
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Taking it further, Nigeria's parliament directed security operatives to arrest MMM promoters, but in spite of these efforts, Nigeria has yet to officially criminalize MMM.
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"To the extent that the government is seeking to criminalize the receipt and publication of classified information, that is a threat to journalists," Rottman said.
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"The rhetoric aims to criminalize immigrants for 'missing their day in court' because they are not bona fide asylum seekers," Morales said in a statement.
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People have also been hyper-focused on "headline-grabbing" abortion bans like Alabama's, Tu added, because they're so boldfaced in their attempts to criminalize abortion.
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The bill would not only criminalize doctors, but would also restrict abortion access as early as the first trimester, in conflict with Roe v. Wade.
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Her lawyers have also argued that Carter's due process was violated because Massachusetts's common law of involuntary manslaughter was "arbitrarily" enforced to criminalize her words.
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The bill looks to criminalize abortion providers who offer the procedure after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which often happens around six weeks of gestation.
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Their disagreement called into question what it means to criminalize the formerly incarcerated and whether or not we truly believe in second chances for offenders.
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Trump believes the answer to the desperate fears women have for their black sons' safety is to ramp up police practices that criminalize their existence.
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Human rights investigators have praised recent moves by Ghani's administration to criminalize torture, but at a practical level reports of torture continue to be widespread.
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His remarks helped give rise to a wave of bills to protect abortion "survivors" around the country, which abortion rights supporters say could criminalize doctors.
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At the time, however, Dugas' story was used by politicians as rationale for laws in 33 states that criminalize knowingly exposing another person to HIV.
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Although Britain does not criminalize prostitution, sex workers can be prosecuted for offences including soliciting for clients and for brothel-keeping when they work together.
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When we profess a moral objection to something, say sex work or drug use, we criminalize it and charge the police with stamping it out.
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Critics say this could criminalize swathes of opposition figures, ranging from pro-democracy activists and separatists to religious minorities and media figures critical of Beijing.
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Even as the hip-hop era subsided, and the forces of financialization took over the city, the campaign to criminalize and stigmatize graffiti soldiered on.
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Federal authorities criminalize a felon's possession of a gun simply because the gun and/or ammunition at one time in its life crossed state lines.
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Most of them centered around redirecting HUD's homeless assistance funds and the Justice Department's community policing grants away from cities and towns that criminalize homelessness.
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The latest attempts to criminalize health care for women will demand that every Alabaman woman must share their medical records with their local district attorney.
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They used their public positions to bully, harass, intimidate, criminalize and bankrupt innocent citizens who held political views that the government decided should be censored.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is set to sign a bill to criminalize revenge porn, joining 41 other states which have already done so.
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The major nations of the world, sensing a significant global legal issue in genetic editing, could come together as a species and criminalize the science.
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Hungarian humanitarian groups that help asylum seekers are standing in defiance of new draconian laws imposed by Viktor Orban's authoritarian government that criminalize their work.
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Meanwhile, South Dakota would criminalize abortion (except for cases in which the mother's life was at risk) the second states were allowed to do so.
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Israel says the law will curb free speech, criminalize basic historical facts and stop any discussion of the role some Poles played in Nazi crimes.
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" The panel added that "a municipality cannot criminalize such behavior consistently with the Eighth Amendment when no sleeping space is practically available in any shelter.
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The new laws also introduced public flogging as a punishment for abortion, and criminalize exposing Muslim children to the beliefs and practices of other religions.
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It wasn't until the 1970s that women's rights activists started campaigning for states to criminalize marital rape, a difficult goal in male-dominated state legislatures.
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A flurry of laws passed by Mr. Zelensky's months-old parliamentary majority seeks to overhaul the justice system and criminalize illicit enrichment by public officials.
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Further, the government introduced a new law claiming to crack down on "fake news" which critics said was an attempt to criminalize criticism of Najib.
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Until fairly recently, the law did not criminalize non-forcible penetration, and many states continue to include "force" in their legal definitions of sexual assault.
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A series of bills introduced in December would strengthen the country's espionage laws, outlaw foreign political donations and criminalize efforts to interfere in Australian democracy.
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In op-eds and Fox News appearances, they claimed he had been the victim of overzealous Justice Department prosecutors who sought to criminalize everyday politicking.
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And it's why the police have had little choice but to criminalize all kinds of behavior that is significantly distant from any act of violence.
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It is widely unknown amongst the general population in the U.S. that we currently have antiquated and discriminatory laws that criminalize people living with HIV.
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I think a lot of people may not think that we do criminalize homelessness, or realize what a law that discriminates against them would be.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) argued in a statement to The Hill that universal background checks would criminalize these various forms of normal, human behavior.
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"Humbled" is what a politician might have been, in pre-post-truth times, if, say, caught doing the very thing he had campaigned to criminalize.
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"If you use ordinances to criminalize and you do not provide alternative services, you do not provide correct engagement," Marbut said in the NextCity interview.
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One of San Francisco's oldest housing density laws, the Cubic Air Ordinance of 1870, was largely used to criminalize Chinese residents living in boarding houses.
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The insidious attempt by some women to criminalize awkward, gross and entitled sex takes women back to the days of smelling salts and fainting couches.
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It shows that the values Europe claims to cherish — so much so that it has attempted to criminalize speech transgressing them — are under direct assault.
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A swatting victim herself, she introduced the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act in 2015 to criminalize using false communications with the intent to create an emergency response.
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"There are so many better ways to have better public safety outcomes rather than continuing to criminalize poverty, mental health, and substance use disorder," Cabán said.
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This was a book about men whose entire lives — whose whole network of relationships — had been criminalized, and she did not hesitate to criminalize her own.
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However, Roy Fernatt, with the help of Clifford and Carney, is fighting to introduce legislation that would criminalize adult bullying in the state of West Virginia.
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Many anti-abortion restrictions that criminalize abortion specify that the doctor who performs the procedure, not the patient who receives it, is at risk of prosecution.
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The state senate passed a bill that would criminalize the latter as well in March, but it is still waiting on the state Assembly for consideration.
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Their online petition asks lawmakers to raise the age of consent from 214 to 216 years, a change they believe would criminalize child marriage in Nigeria.
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" The legislation would federally criminalize the "knowing" distribution of sexually explicit photos or videos of a person with "reckless disregard for the person's lack of consent.
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Recent years have seen large anti-LGBT protests in Jakarta in early 2016, a push to criminalize homosexual sex and passionate reactions to allegations of blasphemy.
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If imposed, the NTSB's guidelines would criminalize this perfectly responsible behavior without targeting the hardcore drunk drivers who cause the vast majority of drunk driving accidents.
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Furthermore, a new E.U. directive on combating terrorism, which would criminalize foreign fighter travel, is currently being debated in Brussels and likely to be adopted shortly.
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Neither by fiat nor by court order can the federal government require the states to criminalize marijuana or to assist the federal government in doing so.
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If signed into law, the bill would criminalize almost all abortions and make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion in the state.
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When the Council considered a plan to criminalize police chokeholds, he and the mayor said it was unnecessary given the department's internal rule against the practice.
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On the one hand, anti-choice advocates want to criminalize abortion, but on the other hand, they claim to absolve women from punishment for the crime.
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It will require countries to regulate the production, sale, and export of the precursors to fentanyl, and to criminalize sale or trafficking outside of those regulations.
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Thirty-two states have laws that explicitly criminalize the transmission of HIV, according to the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), a LGBTQ law and policy think tank.
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Religious hardliners want to implement Sharia law and have long supported increased prosecutions under the Zina and Hudood Ordinances of 1979, which criminalize adultery and fornication.
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"What we do know is they have unintended consequences that criminalize common practices of otherwise law-abiding citizens," such as hunting or sports shooting, she said.
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The federal government has no power to force states to criminalize marijuana under state law and cannot prevent states from removing criminal penalties from state law.
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So I don't think that we need any more evidence that he will be the fifth vote to end Roe and criminalize abortion and punish women.
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One example is a draft law to criminalize disrespect for the Chinese national anthem; another is the disappearance of people from Hong Kong into mainland custody.
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Germany and France have both decided to criminalize denial, on the grounds that it's a form of incitement to racial hatred rather than legitimate political speech.
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The business travel industry was often ignoring the risks of sending L.G.B.T.Q. employees and contractors into countries that criminalize them without any warning, advice or resources.
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Women of color, low-income women, and women who live in rural areas in states that have restricted and sought to criminalize abortion are disproportionately affected.
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Animal rights activists criticized the 2010 law for failing to criminalize the acts of animal cruelty depicted in the videos, rather than just the videos themselves.
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But in the end, anti-trans people don't really care if the trans women they attack and criminalize can perform womanhood better than cis women do.
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Laws that criminalize the use of privacy-enhancing technologies like VPNs are incredibly dangerous and will restrict rights to privacy, free expression and access to information.
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And the Department of Housing and Urban Development has said it takes into consideration policies that criminalize homelessness when deciding which places should get competitive grants.
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At that time, 38 states had "fetal assault" laws that could be used to criminalize people for using drugs or otherwise putting a fetus in danger.
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Advocacy groups say that many of these arrests are unjustified, and part of a growing effort by the Israeli government to criminalize dissent within its borders.
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Public calls to criminalize those paying to have sex with children have increased recently, and a politician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party set up a change.
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A new security feature rolling out on Tinder will help protect LBGTQ+ users who travel to dozens of nations that still criminalize same-sex acts or relationships.
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Nigerian anti-trafficking official Arinze Orakwe said more European nations should criminalize the purchase of sex to curb the number of Nigerians trafficked into prostitution in Europe.
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The big picture: Across Africa, many countries still criminalize homosexuality and same-sex relationships — for example, last month, Kenya's top court upheld a similar set of laws.
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" "As a member of Congress, I helped to introduce legislation that would ensure that we don't criminalize those who are seeking asylum and refuge in this country.
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The Polish strikes were provoked by government proposals to criminalize abortion – 100,00 women wearing black took to the streets to protest plans to tighten already strict laws.
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Six African countries - Chad, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan - do not criminalize FGM, which world leaders pledged to end under global development goals in 2015.
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Mason, a former federal prosecutor, told jurors during closing arguments that the government was attempting to criminalize free speech because Wexler had criticized members of the FBI.
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I'm calling on state legislatures around the country, including in my home state of Pennsylvania - one of 28500 states that don't criminalize the practice - to act now.
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"Once the vigilante groups established control, they began to criminalize themselves," Steven Dudley, a co-director of Insight Crime, which investigates organized crime in the Americas, said.
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Earlier this month, I wrote an op-ed for The Hill entitled "Conservatives should unite with Feminists to pass the IPPA," a bill to criminalize revenge porn.
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"New York law cannot criminalize what the federal Constitution protects, and thus the Penal Law should be interpreted to be consistent with the Constitution," the opinion says.
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The Tennessee and Texas state legislatures are moving bills that would criminalize or severely penalize innocent, good-faith mistakes made by voters registering or casting a ballot.
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Harris, Booker and Scott said that's not enough, but Congress is now prepared to correct the failure to "criminalize lynching as an instrument of terror and intimidation."
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Among the most restrictive measures was one passed in Alabama that would outlaw abortions at virtually every stage of pregnancy and criminalize performing the procedure for doctors.
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Outside the halls of Congress, the immigrant rights movement will play a crucial role in pushing back against the Trump administration's efforts to vilify and criminalize immigrants.
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If state legislatures decided not to criminalize abortion, frenzied Republican accusations of "judicial activism" — the liberal judicial overreach Roe is claimed to symbolize — would ring completely hollow.
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The Canadian federal government introduced legislation to criminalize conversion therapy, a practice that attempts to change the sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of LGBT+ people.
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Alabama has now preemptively created a legal environment that would criminalize abortion immediately, with no exemptions in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother.
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As a member of Congress I help to introduce legislation that would ensure that we don't criminalize those who are seeking asylum and refuge in this country.
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Zelenskiy also needs lawmakers to pass legislation that matters to the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine's most important foreign backer, such as a bill to criminalize illegal enrichment.
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It would also require that the state vote to criminalize abortion, and the state supreme court would have to declare the prohibition constitutional on state constitutional grounds.
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And this mentality that the Republicans seem to have that they want to over-criminalize small offenses — it's an outdated policy that particularly affects communities of color.
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"It is hard to believe anyone would seek to criminalize the way in which one facility was impacted by such a crushing natural disaster," the statement said.
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Calls to criminalize upskirting have been fuelled by a petition launched in April by two German women, one of whom had been upskirted twice as a teenager.
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In August, Ortega, who has been in power with his wife, who is vice president, since 2006, passed an anti-terrorism law to criminalize protesters as terrorists.
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In other cases, the E.U. has dangled enticements such as humanitarian and economic aid to convince source and transit countries to crack down on or criminalize migration.
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The plan also contains elements of a sweeping enforcement bill, commonly known as the Davis-Oliver Act, that would criminalize people in the U.S. without legal status.
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The charges raised questions about press freedom, and critics have expressed concern that the case could set a precedent to criminalize future acts of national security journalism.
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But the purpose wasn't to criminalize having a truant kid, said Miller, who's now chief of alternative programs and initiatives at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
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Related: This Is How One Pot Smoker Learned That Weed Plays a Mysterious Role in Psychosis Wendy Mariner, a Boston University School of Law and School of Public Health professor, said there's a long history of criminalizing addiction and vagrancy in the United States, though a 1962 Supreme Court ruling determined that governments couldn't criminalize addiction, but they could criminalize acts that addicted people engaged in, such as public drunkenness.
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Egypt has made significant strides in legislation aimed at improving women's lives, including more stringent laws that criminalize areas such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment.
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Much of the general population in the United States doesn't realize that we still have antiquated and discriminatory laws on the books that criminalize people living with HIV.
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It is going to be much harder to hire top talent and build a diverse workforce pipeline in places that are seeking to restrict, ban, and criminalize abortion.
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One feature of the bill that's received less inspection but is perhaps most alarming of all is that how it would criminalize illegitimate re-identification of user data.
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As part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orban against so-called irregular migrants, the bill could criminalize acts such as handing out food or informational pamphlets.
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Last month United Nations human rights experts wrote to Italy saying the draft decree was an attempt to criminalize search and rescue operations carried out by humanitarian groups.
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Those therapists had seen more than a thousand MDMA-assisted breakthroughs with patients, with no major side effects, by the time the government moved to criminalize the drug.
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In May 1985, in the midst of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, the DEA took emergency measures to criminalize the drug despite full-throated opposition from therapists.
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A 2017 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) found 33 African countries, out of a total of 54, criminalize same sex relations.
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But a draft, seen by Reuters on Monday, included measures to criminalize extramarital sex, same-sex relations, and co-habitation, all of which were previously unregulated by law.
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A 2017 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) found 33 African countries, out of a total of 54, criminalize same sex relations.
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Details: The bill would make abortion a felony and criminalize the procedure for doctors, who could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted, according to AL.com.
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New York (CNN Business)A new batch of charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has alarmed free speech advocates who say it threatens to criminalize legitimate journalistic practices.
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The scant enforcement of the Gun-Free School Zones Act suggests it's ineffective in addressing extant problems, providing benefits insufficient to criminalize acts states have sought to authorize.
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The former include a broad array of fetal endangerment and fetal homicide laws that criminalize the conduct of pregnant women as well as the actions of third parties.
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It's 2019, and rather than making every effort to fight for the equality, freedom, and basic human rights of Americans, several states are currently attempting to criminalize abortion.
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Because, as she sifts through American history, you grasp the larger implications of her argument: The United States did not just criminalize a select group of black people.
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"While some might argue there's a moral or ethical responsibility, we do not as a society criminalize a failure to report a crime," he said in an email.
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The bill would criminalize abortion and classify it as homicide, which would make it possible for a woman to receive the death penalty for having the procedure done.
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According to a 85033 report from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, 72 countries still criminalize homosexuality, including eight where it is punishable by death.
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" Akwei also said that the "vague wording" of laws to prohibit hate speech have been "misused to stifle legitimate freedom of expression and criminalize criticism of the government.
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But Democrats have decried the bill as an overly broad attempt to give the government the power to criminalize virtually any immigrant or group of people helping them.
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Western imperialism and white supremacy destroy whole cities, push millions of refugees into desperate conditions, criminalize entire populations, and mine resources — human and otherwise — for their own benefit.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he plans to criminalize anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism, in response to a surge in hate crimes targeting Jews.
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While the exiled Cuba of Miami often condemns any criticisms of the United States because they echo Castro's, the leaders of Communist Cuba criminalize any criticisms of themselves.
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"To use prosecutorial discretion to attempt to criminalize voter assistance is wrong and should be disqualifying for any aspirant to the nation's highest law enforcement post," he wrote.
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More than 85033 state bills that would criminalize protest, deter political participation, and curtail freedom of association have been introduced across the country in the past two years.
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While Louisiana isn't one of the five states that explicitly ban the practice of self-managing an abortion, other laws could still be used to criminalize the practice.
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As states like Alabama seek to criminalize abortion providers, detailed abortion reports give states an idea of which providers they could target if new criminal sanctions are enacted.
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More than 70 states criminalize same-sex relationships, with some applying the death penalty, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) rights group.
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Farid is talking with policymakers in the US and Europe about how new laws could criminalize malicious deepfakes or force internet companies to work harder at detecting them.
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"Any attempt to criminalize or control self-managed abortion is illegitimate and unconstitutional," said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel at the reproductive justice legal group If/When/How.
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A 2019 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association found 32 African countries out of a total of 54 nations criminalize same sex relations.
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Doctors were also at the forefront of pushing anti-abortion laws, most notably with the American Medical Association's successful national campaign to criminalize abortion outright, beginning in 1858.
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"When you're talking about consenting adults, you know, yes, we should consider that we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed," she said.
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Just last week, US officials led an effort at the UN to call out 69 countries that criminalize same-sex relationships, and urged protections for the LGBTQ community.
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A 2017 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association found 33 African countries out of a total of 54 nations criminalize same sex relations.
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At least five states — California, Connecticut, Michigan, Texas and Wyoming — have passed laws to explicitly criminalize ransomware and computer extortion, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Arab countries are not unique in having laws that criminalize offenses to heads of state, to national institutions such as the army and to national and religious values.
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I wanna believe we can think about a response to safety that doesn't say people need to be in cages and that doesn't criminalize people for being poor.
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Ader says predictive policing is inherently biased because the data used to make crime predictions is based on years of biased policing strategies that "over-criminalize" certain neighborhoods.
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They say national drug-control policies are skewed toward harsh measures that criminalize users but have failed to staunch the deluge of drugs or catch the kingpins behind it.
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The regulation of the internet in China is carried out through measures that are collectively known as the Great Firewall, which censor and criminalize sensitive material on the internet.
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A 2017 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) found 33 African countries out of a total of 54 nations criminalize same-sex relations.
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Israel and the United States have spoken out forcefully against the Holocaust law, which they say could criminalize truthful scholarship about the role some Poles played in German crimes.
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There is widespread fear that the incoming Department of Justice will both de-emphasize enforcement of civil rights laws and intensify programs that criminalize and profile communities of color.
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Mayor Steve Adler (D) has criticized efforts he said would criminalize the city's homeless population and last month said that the city was working to address the homeless crisis.
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At a Tuesday morning hearing in Ohio, legislators met to consider passing Senate Bill 145, an amended version of an existing bill, which, if passed, would essentially criminalize abortion.
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She says that it's possible that some "personhood amendments," which classify fetuses and embryos as people, have failed to pass in part because they might criminalize aspects of IVF.
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It would criminalize abortions in all cases with no exceptions — and it would also threaten women with jail if they seek abortion, which isn't currently the case in Poland.
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Zelenskiy also needs lawmakers to pass legislation that matters to the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine's most important foreign backer, such as a bill to criminalize illegal enrichment by officials.
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Honduras is one of a handful of countries worldwide that criminalize abortion in all circumstances, and any woman who undergoes one may be imprisoned for up to six years.
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With the system of Black Codes in the southern states that criminalize minor crimes, with the Jim Crow laws during the Reconstruction Era, black men were sent to jail.
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"Since my childhood I was told that LGBT people are sinful, being a homosexual is sinful but of course ... it doesn't mean you have to criminalize them," she said.
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Ivory Coast is one of a minority of African countries - around 20 of the 54 nations on the continent - which do not explicitly criminalize homosexuality or same-sex acts.
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By law they cannot call their places of worship mosques or distribute religious literature, recite the Koran or use traditional Islamic greetings, measures they say criminalize their daily lives.
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Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, and the time is way overdue to stand up for the voiceless and criminalize this horrific practice.
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Democratic lawmakers unveiled a bill on Thursday that would criminalize misleading tactics like these, as well as similar ones that have cropped up in state elections in recent years.
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Ironically, while calls to criminalize are predicated on the idea that prostitution is harmful, what I'm seeing is that the more criminalized it gets, the more harmful it becomes.
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The State Senate could vote today on a measure that would entirely outlaw most abortions at every stage of pregnancy, from conception on, and criminalize the procedure for doctors.
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Trump will almost certainly try to criminalize his opponent — crowds at his rallies have taken to chanting "Lock her up" at the mention of virtually any Democratic woman's name.
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The Trump administration's move could establish a precedent used to criminalize future acts of national-security journalism, said Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
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Legislation is slowly catching up to the epidemic; while revenge porn is not yet technically illegal under federal law, 35 states and Washington DC criminalize conduct of this kind.
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"As a member of Congress, I helped to introduce legislation that would ensure that we don't criminalize those who are seeking asylum and refuge in this country," O'Rourke said.
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"I don't want to criminalize these Africans, because I know what it's like to be a migrant and to have to make a new start in life," he said.
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"The crux of the issue is that in New York City, we criminalize poverty," Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, said in an interview on Wednesday.
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"A total ban on trading wild animals would criminalize a substantial proportion of the Chinese population, and be untenable," Zhao-Min Zhou, a Chinese wildlife-policy researcher, told Nature.
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Israel this year instituted a policy preventing foreign-born BDS supporters from entering the country, and legislation has moved through Congress designed to criminalize participation in the BDS movement.
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It now includes significant numbers of police executives and prosecutors, who say our tendency to over-criminalize and over-punish wastes money and human potential without making us safer.
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Twelve United Nations agencies called in June for an end to discrimination in health care and the elimination of laws that criminalize gender expression and relationships between consenting adults.
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Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump might not be a fan of burning the American flag, but neither he nor Congress can criminalize it, the Supreme Court has ruled twice.
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However, attempts to further criminalize homosexuality have been taken in countries including Uganda, South Sudan, Burundi, Liberia, and Nigeria over the last five years, according to an Amnesty International report.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider its 2013 decision that criminalize consensual sexual relations between same sex adults, a victory for equal rights campaigners.
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Nearly a dozen states have considered passing legislation that would punish, and in some cases criminalize, doctors for giving gender-affirming health care, like hormones and puberty blockers, to minors.
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The spread of Hill's deeply personal photos highlights changing laws, too: In recent years, more and more governments have taken steps to criminalize the nonconsensual release of sexually explicit material.
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"It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct," said a U.S. official involved in organizing the event.
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In 2016, some members of PiS backed a grassroots anti-abortion citizen's initiative to criminalize termination with a penalty of up to five years in prison for women and doctors.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - New Hungarian laws that criminalize people for helping asylum-seekers are shameful and blatantly xenophobic, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said on Thursday.
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Make no mistake: The longer our federal policies continue to criminalize marijuana, the longer our nation continues to suffer from excessive, costly and disproportionate federal prosecution against petty marijuana possession.
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Much of this activism highlights the fact that Sudan does not criminalize marital rape and that the outcome in Hussein's case would have been less unjust had she been elsewhere.
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Back when this story first emerged, it was already something attorney Alan Dershowitz called a dangerous example of a tit-for-tat political use of the FBI to criminalize politics.
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If the governments wanted to regulate what Douglas Massey of Princeton called this "circular migration," there were only two choices — legalize the flow or criminalize it and impose harsh consequences.
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Lawmakers earlier Thursday had prepared to vote on legislation that would criminalize almost all abortions and make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion in the state.
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Peterson, by Canadian standards, is controversial; he dared to criticize political correctness and fretted about the Canadian government's Bill C-16, which could criminalize speech about issues of gender identity.
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A number of high-profile Indonesian politicians, including several government ministers, have unleashed anti-LGBT rhetoric and a parliamentary proposal still being debated would criminalize gay sex and extramarital sex.
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Granting an interview or engaging in a dialogue with a Univision journalist—or any other Spanish-language media outlet—just wasn't suited to his plan to criminalize a defenseless minority.
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"These politicians, like asha bandele says, can no longer write race into the law, so they wrote drugs in the law specifically to attack and harass and criminalize," Fab stressed.
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Oetomo however sounded a note of caution, pointing to a petition lodged with Indonesia's top court by anti-LGBT groups to criminalize consensual sex between adults of the same gender.
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The Alabama Senate fell into chaos during debate on a measure to criminalize most abortions, as some Republicans sought to abandon provisions for exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
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Six African countries - Chad, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan - do not criminalize FGM, which world leaders pledged to end under a set of global goals agreed in 2015.
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Despite intervention led by the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) and allied stakeholders, the DEA proceeded with the intention to criminalize EMS administration of certain life-saving standing orders.
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There are bills aiming to criminalize doctors providing care alongside other proposals to prevent trans high schoolers from participating in sports or using the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
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" The world needs "global leadership on this issue," Bankston said, "as we see more countries trying to move in the direction of trying to criminalize or otherwise interfere with encryption.
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" But they added that "conduct need not be criminal to be impeachable" and that the "standard here is constitutional; it does not depend on what Congress has chosen to criminalize.
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Lim Kit Siang, a senior opposition lawmaker with the Democratic Action Party, described the bill as a "Save Najib from 1MDB Scandal Bill" which would criminalize news on the affair.
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The First Amendment was also a shriveled, desiccated husk in the 1930s, largely due to a series of World War I era decisions that allowed the government to criminalize dissent.
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At the federal level, a bill called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act would criminalize adherence to any boycott of Israel called for by an international agency (like the United Nations).
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"We conclude that a municipality cannot criminalize such behavior consistently with the Eighth Amendment when no sleeping space is practically available in any shelter," the court ruled at the time.
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"The legislation does not 'ban' members of the Tobacco Free Generation from smoking or seek to criminalize them," says Nick Towle, clinical medical education adviser at the University of Tasmania.
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If we criminalize the behaviors called out by the #MeToo movement — those that aren't already crimes, that is — we will end up with broader definitions of sexual harassment and assault.
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Thankfully, three New York City councilmen introduced a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize digitally whisking your dick photos to anyone who doesn't want to see them, which is probably everybody.
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"We are disappointed that the Alabama House passed HB314 despite the fact it would criminalize abortion and interfere with a woman's personal, private medical decisions," the group said in a statement.
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Tony Tinderholt has introduced the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act, which would criminalize abortion and, as Tinderholt put it to the Texas Observer, make women "personally responsible" for having sex.
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However, if we want a better life for people with addiction and with pain, we should decriminalize drug use—and criminalize the marketing of potentially addictive drugs by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Vox wants to slash taxes, quash Catalan autonomy, criminalize illegal immigration, build a wall on the Moroccan border, restrict the religious activities of Muslims, and radically centralize political control in Spain.
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The Supreme Court since 1969 has held that the freedoms of speech and press do not permit the government to criminalize comments by someone who advocates violence or breaking the law.
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"The number of cases where ITE Law are enforced to criminalize innocent people is increasing, resulting a threat to freedom of expression," the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform said to CNN.
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Last Tuesday, Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a piece of anti-choice legislation that would criminalize abortion at six weeks, which is often before people know they're pregnant.
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This right-wing plan would criminalize all unauthorized immigrants in the US and curb legal immigration by 25 percent, while giving legal status — but not green cards — to current DACA recipients.
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The pact pushed for an extreme global standard for copyright terms of 70 years after the death of the creator, along with provisions that criminalize everyday experimentation, tinkering, and online activity.
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To criminalize the political process is to evade checks and balances, and it has resulted in a never ending tit-for-tat, where one party seeks revenge by scandalizing the other.
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According to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), there are 70 countries around the world that criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults to varying extents.
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It is no wonder Trump -- who recently tweeted that immigrants "infest our country" -- would criminalize migrant children and their parents with punitive measures such as detention centers and zero tolerance prosecution.
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In a joint statement, several international observers, including Reporters without Borders, called for the release of all 17 defendants, saying the case amounted to a "politically motivated effort to criminalize journalism".
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In Missouri a bill proposed a seven-year prison term for "unlawful obstruction of traffic", while the Minnesota bill would criminalize peaceful protesters for participating in demonstrations that subsequently turned violent.
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The proposals would see a ban on all foreign political donations to Australians, criminalize attempts by foreign actors to influence the government, as well as giving law enforcement agencies greater powers.
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The Mann Act purported to prevent human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution, but critics have argued it was applied inconsistently to criminalize African Americans and those with dissenting political views.
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"This bill, which would criminalize abortion and send doctors to jail, is blatantly unconstitutional," Gretchen Borchelt, the vice president for reproductive rights and health at the NWLC, told Broadly over email.
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This week, South Africa released a draft law that would criminalize racism by referring future hate speech cases to criminal courts instead of the civil courts where they are currently heard.
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" Because, she added, as Ms. DuVernay "sifts through American history, you grasp the larger implications of her argument: The United States did not just criminalize a select group of black people.
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The Supreme Court, most recently in 1989, has ruled that flag burning is legally protected under the First Amendment, despite efforts by Congress and President George H.W. Bush to criminalize it.
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So they have expressed increasing discomfort with Mr. Salvini's efforts to block migrants from entering the country and his proposals to criminalize aid ships who bring rescued migrants to Italian shores.
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It was the plenary power doctrine that provided the federal government with the authority to establish detention camps and boarding schools, to engage in family separation and to criminalize religious beliefs.
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Your social channels have been filled with updates on the South Dakota House vote on House Bill 1057, which would criminalize health care providers who prescribe puberty blockers or hormone injection.
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People on the Democratic side don't like President Trump, they don't like his demeanor so they decided to sort of criminalize politics," Paul said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union.
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The Trump administration said the law is not meant to criminalize protected speech, but rather to stop people who would facilitate or solicit illegal immigration and enrich themselves by doing so.
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This summer, Chico's police department considered a similar measure, but council decided against it, worried that it would do more to criminalize homeless people and night workers than keep people safe.
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Elly Page, a legal adviser for ICNL, said many state proposals also include broad language seeking to criminalize providing financial support to anti-pipeline activists or even "encouraging" or "advising" protesters.
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The campaign has also been tuning into local issues, issuing a statement from top policy adviser Maya Harris on the Colorado legislature's personhood bill, and a bill to criminalize abortion doctors.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has found a friend in Trump, and has enacted anti-immigrant "Stop Soros" laws to criminalize anyone who helps an undocumented immigrant file an asylum claim.
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"This law's objective is to criminalize politicians' online critics," wrote Ronaldo Lemos, one of Brazil's most prominent digital rights advocates, in an op-ed in the Folha de S.Paulo daily newspaper.
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Washington (CNN)An Alabama state lawmaker is facing backlash for saying some "kids are unwanted" so you "kill them now or kill them later" in opposing a bill that would criminalize abortion.
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Of course, fashion doesn't exist in a vacuum, but true allyship acknowledges and pays homage to the community responsible for said trend and doesn't criminalize the community while essentially gentrifying its style.
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But nine states lack such exceptions, and others have laws that can be used to criminalize people who self-manage abortions, even if they don't ban the procedure outright, Diaz-Tello said.
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A thoughtful response would also push for sex work decriminalization, as laws that criminalize sex work like FOSTA-SESTA further marginalize sex workers, increasing their already disproportionately high risk for HIV transmission.
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" She also said the ban on making misrepresentations to enter facilities was void because it could criminalize innocent behavior, suffered from "staggering" overbreadth, and was largely "targeted at speech and investigative journalists.
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The Justice Department was trying to criminalize people for exercising their First Amendment rights, Steven McCool, a lawyer for one of the six defendants on trial, told jurors in his closing arguments.
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Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) that would criminalize all unauthorized immigrants in the US and curb legal immigration by 25 percent, while giving legal status — but not green cards — to current DACA recipients.
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"It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct," an anonymous U.S. official connected to the campaign told NBC News.
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Anti-abortion groups are "engaged in a coordinated and long-term strategy for which the ultimate goal is to criminalize abortion," Kimmell said, and films like Unplanned are part of that strategy.
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"A new batch of charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has alarmed free speech advocates who say it threatens to criminalize legitimate journalistic practices," Jackie Wattles wrote for CNN Business on Thursday.
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In 68 countries, people living with HIV face laws that criminalize non-disclosure, exposure or transmission, which not only have a negative impact on prevention, but can discourage HIV testing and disclosure.
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While two years ago a bill to further criminalize sex work almost made it through the Scottish Parliament, this year politicians will be looking at a bill in favour of full decriminalization.
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President Obama dealt with this tension — the states are increasingly legalizing that which the federal government continues to criminalize — by formulating a policy of deference with regard to state marijuana law reform.
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To criminalize them, Fish wrote, prosecutors sought an "unprecedented expansion" of a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed after the Enron scandal, that prohibited corporate document-shredding to hide financial wrongdoing.
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"It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct," a U.S. official involved in organizing the event told NBC News.
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Lower courts had upheld the laws, which criminalize a motorist's refusal to take a test gauging alcohol levels in situations in which police do not have a warrant for such a test.
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A Tulsa County judge dismissed the case, which involved two high school students, last November on the grounds that Oklahoma statutes do not criminalize forcing an unconscious person to perform oral sex.
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The decriminalization bills offered by lawmakers in Massachusetts and Maine would create systems something akin to the "Nordic Model," eliminating criminal penalties for prostitutes, but continuing to criminalize sex buyers and pimps.
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That challenge has spawned a fervent debate over whether the United States needs a new law to specifically criminalize domestic terrorism, or whether such a statute would threaten basic First Amendment rights.
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Yes, he has claimed that his domestic political opponents are committing treason by exercising their constitutional rights of oversight, and he is clearly itching to use the justice system to criminalize criticism.
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Medical abortion has "benefited millions of women," according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which warns against efforts to limit access to, or criminalize use of, the evidence-based regimen.
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If the bill becomes law, as is expected, it will criminalize the import and distribution of Israeli products made in the disputed territories (east Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights).
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungarian civic groups under attack by anti-migration Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on the government Monday to withdraw a bill seeking to criminalize their work with asylum-seekers and refugees.
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Across the globe, a staggering 70 UN member states -- almost half of which are in Africa -- still criminalize same-sex relations between two consenting adults, according to ILGA's 2019 state sponsored homophobia report.
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The bill would also make it a crime to "knowingly coerce or exert undue influence" on a patient to receive the medication and criminalize the act of forging request documents for the medication.
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Congress has the power to approve a foreign emolument under that clause, the judge noted, so it wouldn't make sense to criminalize the receipt of something that Congress could also sign off on.
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They grow out of the logic of a campaign which has reveled in violent rhetoric, sought to criminalize his opponents, and cast doubt on the legitimacy of anyone who seeks to defeat him.
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If this happens, 2240 states could criminalize abortion immediately, and only nine states have included the right to abortion in their respective state constitutions to protect abortion access in the absence of Roe.
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The bill would criminalize all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and would make it possible to charge a woman with homicide for having the procedure, according to the Washington Post.
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In a letter to MEPs before the vote, Brunei said it "does not criminalize nor has any intention to victimize a person's status based on sexual orientation or belief, including same-sex relations".
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Earlier this month, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote an impassioned plea to the New York state assembly, asking them to pass a bill that would criminalize the use of ticket-scalping bots.
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Iran has a history of executing gay men accused of rape, and LGBT activists in the country contend that the charges are falsified in order to criminalize and obscure consensual same-sex partnerships.
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Republican state legislators across the country are advancing bills that would criminalize or penalize some public protests just a month after millions of Americans took to the streets in opposition to President Trump.
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But Nixon's personal motives aside, it's entirely plausible that he was tapping into a broader movement instead of creating his own just to criminalize constituents and people of certain races whom he disliked.
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In a letter to Austrian Economics Minister Harald Mahrer dated July 11 and seen by Reuters, Airbus said efforts to criminalize business deals linked to the order threatened the reputation of aerospace suppliers.
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"The tendency to criminalize suppliers and their partners in such an internationally important order is not acceptable for us as an industry," Airbus management representative for Austria, Peter Denker, said in the letter.
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I arrive at the Texas Capitol building to testify in support of Bill 2789, which would criminalize sending unsolicited lewd photos in the same way that indecent exposure in public is a crime.
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His administration has attempted to criminalize those entering the United States illegally, separated parents from their children and drastically slowed down the ability of migrants to apply for asylum in the United States.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's High Court on Friday upheld laws that criminalize gay sex, declining to join the handful of nations that have recently abolished a prohibition imposed by Britain during the colonial era.
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Despite the German government's plans to criminalize upskirting, it is still a "tough topic" to discuss and many are still too embarrassed to report it, said Seidel, calling for more female police officers.
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The Mediterranean island nation of Malta has become the first European country to criminalize therapeutic methods that purport to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, the government and activist groups said.
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Yet I also see that debating these issues in light of our Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty is the mark of a pluralistic society -- the type not seen in nations that criminalize homosexuality.
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But you have to remember that we are not here to criminalize morality," Ms. Rotunno said, adding moments later: "If you had to look at the evidence alone from their perspective, they lose.
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Three men were sentenced to death in May under a 2016 sexual offences law in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, the first in Somalia to criminalize offences such as sexual harassment and rape.
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"The Government's decision to criminalize work performance, when there is an administrative process available through the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by her union with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, is disappointing," he said.
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"This case is about whether the state may criminalize truthful speech that merchants believe is their most effective way of communicating the hidden cost of credit cards to their customers," Mr. Gupta said.
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And long before Trump began weaponizing the power of the presidency for political gain, Republicans were using their political power to harass climate scientists and, where possible, criminalize the practice of science itself.
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Illinois used to criminalize the act of "riding or driving faster than a walk's-pace through a herd of livestock," and West Virginia still collects taxes of a dollar or two on dogs.
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"Many people don't like us ... they don't like us being more visible, so they are preparing laws that can criminalize us," Ael, who asked for his surname to not be used, told CNN.
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As recently as March 2016, the Russian Ministry of Finance was pushing for legislation to criminalize bitcoin use in the country, viewing cryptocurrencies' decentralization and pseudonymity as a threat to Russia's financial stability.
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In Maine, a Republican bill to criminalize FGM failed to pass in 2017 in part because FGM had been used in Maine to demonize immigrants and refugees from predominantly Muslim countries in Africa.
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Michelle Goldberg picks apart conservatives' response to efforts in New York and Virginia to expand access and argues that even ostensibly limited restrictions are part of a broader quest to criminalize the practice.
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UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The home is one of the most dangerous places for women, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as research showed only four in 10 countries criminalize marital rape.
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"If this decision were to stand, this or another administration could add other conditions, favoring jurisdictions that criminalize abortions or allow teachers to have guns in classrooms," Feuer said, according to the LA Times.
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The most consequential of these myths is that no one chooses sex work, and most are pushed into it by abusive pimps — each common beliefs among many who seek to further criminalize the industry.
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" As the United States Ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, said following that U.N. briefing: "This is not an issue, by any means, confined to ISIL... You have countries that have criminalize LGBT status.
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A group of lawmakers in Egypt presented legislation this week that would further criminalize homosexuality in Egypt, reported the news site Masrawy, including making it a crime to "advertise gay gatherings" on social media.
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The joint legal actions also call on the court to set a deadline for lawmakers to pass legislation that would specifically criminalize discrimination or violence on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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When I talked with Elisabeth Moss about the show shortly after its debut, she pointed out that one of the things Gilead manages to criminalize without even really trying is pleasure derived from sex.
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Stephen Bratton, 44, also previously advocated for the passage of a bill that would criminalize abortion in Texas, which would have made the death penalty a possibility for those who undergo the medical procedure.
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The problem, though, is figuring out how to effectively criminalize it—an issue yet again on display now that a federal revenge porn bill has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives.
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But this incident also shows how effective President Donald Trump's attempts to criminalize the media have been, and how his glorification of strongmen sets the tone for everyday behavior by the rank and file.
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According to a 2018 report by Peter Tatchell Foundation—a UK-based non-profit that focuses on human rights—countries that criminalize homosexuality are losing out on economic advantages enjoyed by countries that don't.
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The practice of making small hot air balloons is a common one in Brazil, especially during the hot, dry months of June and July, and authorities have launched annual campaigns to criminalize the practice.
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"The law ... doesn't explicitly prohibit intersex genital mutilation (IGM), nor criminalize or adequately sanction IGM, nor address obstacles to access to justice and redress for IGM survivors," said Daniela Truffer, co-founder of StopIGM.org.
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Yet two extreme anti-abortion measures passed in Alabama and West Virginia on Election day, both of which could criminalize certain forms of contraception and fertility treatment along with abortion care, if Roe v.
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A Republican state lawmaker in Texas has reintroduced a bill that would criminalize abortion without exception, making it possible for women to be convicted of homicide and sentenced to death for having the procedure.
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They flag that men who have sex with men have been publicly caned under sharia law in Indonesia; that ISIS in Syria targets homosexuality; and that the Maldives, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia criminalize it.
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That, and the elimination of laws that criminalize being gay, would be a far better tribute to the Orlando victims than displays of rainbow colors and ritual condemnations of yet another hate-fueled attack.
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"Some in the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are abusing their power to criminalize the routine practices of politics and government," Blagojevich wrote last week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
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All this has been accompanied by multiple efforts, on campuses and in corporate life, to criminalize or aggressively marginalize certain types of speech in the name of such worthy goals as civility and inclusiveness.
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Under Mr. el-Sisi, Egypt has blocked over 500 websites and introduced laws that criminalize criticism of the government on social media, which Mr. el-Sisi has described as a threat to national security.
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She also gave a shoutout to Castro last October after she said she would be joining the then-fellow Democratic candidate in opposing a proposed measure in Las Vegas that sought to criminalize homelessness.
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This designation will do nothing to limit the IRGC's malign activities, but it may criminalize the activities of millions of Iranians and foreign tourists -- and set a precedent that Washington may come to regret.
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"What this decision definitively does is take Chile once and for all off the embarrassing list of countries that still criminalize abortion without exception," said Ana Piquer, the executive director of Amnesty International Chile.
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All these circumstances — mass incarceration of Black people, the policing of sex work, solitary confinement, cash bail, and the war on drugs — are products of policies designed to constrain Black life and criminalize poverty.
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The 1998 impeachment verdict and Edwards trial established that trying to criminalize this behavior through perjury traps and strained election-law readings renders a mockery of our justice system, and we rejected it twice.
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And he has effectively given a pass to local governments that criminalize poverty, by rescinding a 2016 Justice Department memo that urged local courts not to set high fines and fees for poor defendants.
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Within weeks, lawmakers could vote on a new law that looks set to criminalize sex outside of marriage and homosexual sex in Indonesia, as part of wide-reaching changes to the country's criminal code.
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"It is a great pity that El Salvador is approving these kind of laws that criminalize civilized solutions that throughout history have been used to resolve social problems," said human rights activist Raul Mijango.
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The men's argument—that the law was a Nazi fossil that violated Germany's constitutional guarantees of "free development of personality" and equality between the sexes (§175 famously did not criminalize female homosexuality)—failed spectacularly.
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Hollywood is still talking about potential future consequences, not whether the idea that a state could go this far in pushing to criminalize abortion was enough alone to compel abandonment of any business dealings there.
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Rather, he said, his crew were responding to a desperate humanitarian need to save lives on the Mediterranean — an activity that Italy's populist, anti-immigration government has been pushing to criminalize since coming to power.
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Indiana: Bill would criminalize abortion A legislator says he will file a bill that will outlaw all forms of abortion and allow criminal charges to be filed against people who participate in an abortion procedure.
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Because which risk is greater: losing possible business with those who believe a woman should not choose her own basic destiny, or not speaking out against legislation that would criminalize women who terminate their pregnancies?
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" O'Rourke, turning to Castro, got in his response: "Actually, as a member of Congress, I helped to introduce legislation that would ensure we don't criminalize those who are seeking asylum and refuge in this country.
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These laws were not only used to criminalize entire generations of people of color, but created a legacy that has left New York in the dark ages when it comes to common-sense marijuana policy.
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Clyde Chambliss, who handled the bill, over provisions that would criminalize the act of performing abortions on victims of rape or incest, calling the move unconstitutional and "backward" to force those women to give birth.
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The City Council passed the Sullivan Ordinance, which didn't criminalize women's smoking, but made it illegal for anyone managing or owning "a public place" such as a hotel or restaurant to allow women to smoke.
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If teachers, administrators, and cops continue to criminalize children for violating what I have come to call a "cult of compliance," punishing them for acting in ways that come naturally, how can we decriminalize disability?
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An immigration bill proposed by conservative House Republicans and supported by President Trump includes a provision that would criminalize non-student DACA recipients if their annual income falls below 125% of the federal poverty rate.
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He said prosecutors went too far in trying to criminalize Rowland's conduct under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a governance law passed after Enron Corp's collapse, that prohibits falsifying documents to hide financial wrongdoing.
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John Kasich had the wisdom to curb Republican lawmakers' worst excesses, but DeWine has already made clear that he will give them free rein to pass laws that criminalize abortion and empower the gun lobby.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday criticized proposals in Indonesia's parliament to criminalize gay sex and extramarital sex, saying such laws could hurt the country's beleaguered LGBT community and other minorities.
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According to a report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, 6900 countries still criminalize homosexuality and being gay is punishable by death in eight, including in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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And if the city was really focused on making the place better, it wouldn't just criminalize behavior, it would fix elevators and lights, and think of ways to empower people to better manage their environments.
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Journalists, constantly in the public eye, are easy targets for Pakistan's vague and lethal blasphemy laws, which criminalize any statement that is "defamatory" to Islam, religious texts, the holy prophet or anyone associated with him.
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The activists sat on the floor of the Senate building with emergency blankets to demand Congress act to end the Trump administration policies that criminalize and detain undocumented immigrants and separates their children from them.
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But, he adds, Congress has its own power to write laws that criminalize obstruction of justice to ensure the proper functioning of the criminal-justice system, and that those prohibitions can also apply to presidents.
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In its headlong rush to criminalize, Congress has become careless by writing laws and authorizing agencies to enact criminal provisions that can send people to jail, but do not define the required criminal mental state.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration has been pushing to criminalize "triple talaq", under which a man can divorce by uttering the word "talaq", meaning divorce in Arabic, three times in his wife's presence.
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Two New York City Councilmen announced a bill this week that would criminalize sending unwanted nude images to others electronically after a series of incidents on New York city public transit services caught legislators' attention.
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Asked about a proposal drafted by Russia's lower house of parliament to criminalize observance of U.S. sanctions, Medvedev said the restrictions were aimed at destroying Russia's socio-political system and harming the economy and individuals.
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The momentum has even spread all the way to the United Nations, which released a joint statement with the World Health Organization last year calling for repeal of laws that criminalize drug use and possession.
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There is something profoundly disturbing in Trump's conduct today when he tries to demonize and criminalize Hillary Clinton and speaks of her regularly with rage-filled and hateful words that are unworthy of any president.
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But reproductive rights and physicians' groups said the bill could criminalize doctors and was unnecessary since laws already exist to protect an infant in the extremely unlikely scenario of a birth after an abortion attempt.
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Earlier this year, Indiana lawmakers considered legislation that would allow revenge porn victims to sue for damages, but a committee chair has so far made sure to foil any bills that criminalize revenge porn outright.
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"We are concerned about the impact of this decision because it opens a door for perpetrators of sexual violence to criminalize victims," said Ade Wahyudin, executive director of the Legal Aid Foundation for the Press.
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In fact, we would spare no expense to reunite CASTRO: Criminalize a lot of these families (CROSSTALK) O'ROURKE: And we would not criminally prosecute any family who was fleeing violence and persecution CASTRO: Section 1325.
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I'd also noticed that in my work with politicians to introduce new laws to criminalize these practices, the language of "revenge porn" limited not just our discussions but also the policies they were putting forward.
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It's a beautiful metaphor for the interdependence of women's lives — for the way that, as Paley would remind us, the laws that imprison or criminalize one of us narrow the options for all of us.
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Defense attorneys accused the state of trying to "criminalize" a natural disaster, and insisted Arkema could not have foreseen the extent of flooding that disrupted backup power needed to keep the volatile chemicals from igniting.
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"Fear led our state to criminalize the disease during the height of the HIV/AIDS panic, leading to more tragic deaths as people were discouraged from seeking testing and treatment to avoid punishment," she said.
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But this week, Republican lawmakers in the South Dakota state legislature introduced a bill that, if signed into law, would criminalize the provision of transgender health care to minors, as NBC News reported on Thursday.
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"The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness," Warren, a volunteer with the non-profit organization No More Deaths, told reporters outside of the Tucson courthouse after his acquittal, the outlet reported.
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"There are so many minorities represented in California alone—to criminalize a cultural tradition because of vaping seems disproportionate," said Rima Khoury, a lawyer who represents Fumari, a sizable hookah company based in San Diego.
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Worse yet — and similar to a punitive approach to immigration enforcement — in perpetuating meaningless enforcement, we pathologize poverty, criminalize and imprison difference, perpetuate institutional racism, and degrade legal practices long considered essential to our freedom.
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I don't have the privilege of not thinking about it, because there are shit-tons of people out there who hate me, harass me, and who wish to criminalize and silence me *because* I'm transgender.
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Robert Conway, a criminal defense lawyer at law firm Vardags, told VICE News that introducing new measures threatens to criminalize young people even further, especially when there are already laws in place to prosecute such offenses.
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Two weeks ago, we saw the nation's most restrictive and severe anti-choice legislation — Alabama's HB314 — signed into law with the intention to criminalize abortion in our state and ultimately gut or overturn Roe v. Wade.
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On appeal, Rowland argued prosecutors went too far in trying to criminalize his conduct under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a law passed after Enron Corp's collapse that prohibits falsifying documents to hide financial wrongdoing.
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Your policy would still criminalize them because it does not call for the repeal of Section 1325," Castro told O'Rourke, adding that the law is "the reason that they're separating these little children from their families.
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The parliamentary commission drawing up recommendations has still to finalize its proposals, but a draft seen by Reuters includes measures to criminalize extramarital sex, same-sex relations and co-habitation, all of which were previously unregulated.
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However, Nigeria in 2015 amended its trafficking law to increase penalties for offenders and criminalize the employment of children under 12 in domestic labor, a move activists hope will give authorities greater power to crack down.
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In Texas and California, recent bills would criminalize the creation of AI-generated videos aimed at knocking an election off course — but only within 30 or 60 days of the poll date, depending on the state.
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A New Orleans activist with Black Youth Project 100 told MTV News that the bill is "a direct response to the work of Black Lives Matter," and would "criminalize those who work to end police brutality."
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All 50 states now have laws that criminalize human trafficking, and many have task forces dedicated to implementing effective policies and procedures to combat human trafficking through the collaboration of prosecutors, law enforcement, and service providers.
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Control and politicization of that wing allows the ruler to criminalize his opponents, to label them enemies of the state, when in fact those so-called enemies are really defenders of a more viable, democratic nation.
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Yet those people demonize, even criminalize, Kaepernick for silently protesting institutional racism, the abuses of law enforcement and the criminal justice system, and for seeking a world free from police and vigilante violence against black bodies.
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer dismissed the idea that, in the absence of a strong limiting principle, federal law could criminalize a governor who accepted a private constituent's payment in exchange for intervening with a constituent problem.
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And since then, we've seen states take up and advance similar laws banning abortion early in pregnancy, including the Georgia ban on abortion at six weeks and the Alabama law that would criminalize almost all abortions.
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The government has continued to hunt down and jail opponents, and many observers, including the United Nations, worry that a new antiterrorism law is being used to criminalize members of the opposition, including those protesting peacefully.
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"Law enforcement needs more effective tools," said Mary McCord, a former top national security prosecutor who has drafted a proposed statute to criminalize the stockpiling of weapons intended to be used in a domestic terrorist attack.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Thursday narrowly rejected a petition asking it to criminalize all sex outside marriage, in a blow to religious conservatives who have been gaining influence in the secular, Muslim-majority country.
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"When you're talking about consenting adults, I think that yes, we should really consider that we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long no one is being harmed," said Ms. Harris, in an interview with The Root.
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Four months after the jury verdicts in Bowser's case, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan tossed out Bowser's conviction on an obstruction of Congress charge, ruling that statute doesn't criminalize interference with an ethics office investigation.
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In a letter to the United Nations, Iraq's foreign minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, said his government would work with the British government on a draft Security Council resolution seeking "international expertise to criminalize" the Islamic State.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's High Court on Monday rejected a petition from some opposition leaders to halt parliamentary debate on draft legislation they say would criminalize many legitimate political activities and cement "one-party" rule.
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By threatening Dr. Warren with a decade in prison, the US government sought to criminalize compassion and weaponize the deadly desert against people who make the perilous journey to the United States in search of safety.
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Trying to squeeze something like a public announcement by the Ukrainian president into the terms of the federal bribery statute seems like an unnecessary and dangerous effort to criminalize a host of fairly ordinary political activities.
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A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Idaho said that women who have abortions should face criminal punishment, potentially including the death penalty, if the state decides to criminalize the procedure, according to The Associated Press.
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While HIV is far from the death sentence it was in the 213s—thanks to viral suppression therapy and other medical advances—it's still surrounded by a cloud of stigma, with state laws that criminalize exposure.
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She noted that in Kenya — where the High Court upheld laws that criminalize gay sex last month — people in the capital were largely tolerant while those in parts of the countryside tended to be more disapproving.
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One of the nation's foremost flag wavers, John Janik, chairman of the National Flag Day Foundation, said that although he found flag-burning protests despicable, he does not support laws that seek to criminalize the act.
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But there's also a lot of research and data that shows black kids are much more likely to be affected by schools' punitive disciplinary policies: So schools aren't just more likely to criminalize their students nowadays.
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What we criminalize and punish and what we mass produce and advertise—not to mention how we treat those who most need our help in dealing with abuse and addiction—speaks volumes about our society's values.
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And then from there, make a commitment to say that we're not going to criminalize poverty, mental health issues, substance use disorder, and that we are going to use our resources to provide support and stabilizing services.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spain is to introduce a new rape law that will criminalize sex without explicit mutual consent after a public outcry over the assault of a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival.
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" Holly Dickson, the legal director of ACLU of Arkansas, said in a statement that "these dangerously extreme bans and restrictions are part of a nationwide effort to criminalize abortion, while punishing providers and shaming families seeking care.
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Democrats who shared the infamous "Jesusland/United States of Canada" map after the 2004 election might be more inclined to take radical action should the Supreme Court dismantle the New Deal social welfare apparatus or criminalize abortion.
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She referred to them as "kaffirs," an offensive and derogatory term for black South Africans that was used during apartheid, and which lawmakers have in recent years tried to criminalize along with other forms of hate speech.
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Glaser noted in his testimony that all Gulf countries have passed "counter-terrorism laws that criminalize terrorist financing" and have also established controls to ensure that money within the charitable sector is not diverted for terrorist funding.
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Activist group Sisters Uncut stormed the event wearing 'Time's Up Theresa' T-shirts, highlighting the prime minister's upcoming Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill, which will criminalize survivors while distracting from devastating cuts to domestic violence services worldwide.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked an Ohio law due to take effect later this month that would criminalize abortions based on a Down syndrome diagnosis, ruling that it violates a woman's right to choose.
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With pre-dawn raids, overzealous prosecutors and a flair for big, flashy press conferences, we have learned the hard way how some prosecutors have weaponized their unchecked power to criminalize the routine practices of politics and government.
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About 37 of the 53 mostly former British colonies still have colonial era laws which criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identities with same sex sexual activity punishable by life imprisonment in nine of those countries.
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Gottberg once wrote that the Holocaust was used as an "effective tool to criminalize Germans and their history" and said German refugees pushed out of eastern Europe after World War Two should have the right of return.
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Chinamasa, a lawyer by training, will also be responsible for bringing to parliament a long awaited cyber crimes bill that criminalize false information posted on the internet, revenge porn, cyber-bullying and online activity against the government.
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The city already has unreasonable zoning laws that, in effect, criminalize dense development in many high-demand neighborhoods, but the unfettered control that alderman have means that access to opportunity is often only granted to political insiders.
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" Organizational and LGBT support The bill enjoyed support from Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform (CHCR), a coalition of several organizations, including the ACLU of California, whose mission is to replace the "stigmatizing laws that criminalize HIV status.
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"We have seen European countries shut down their borders, criminalize organizations like MSF, and close ports," she said, describing how MSF had to remove its boats - which rescued thousands from the Mediterranean until 2016 - from the sea.
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The Caribbean nation is one of just 26 countries around the globe that prohibit -- even criminalize -- the procedure with no exceptions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy group focused on reproductive health and rights.
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A racial epithet historically used by whites to denigrate black people and considered so offensive that it is rarely printed or said in public is at the center of a proposed law that would criminalize hate speech.
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He railed against those who want to criminalize drug addiction -- going off on a Twitter rant to get his point across ... but in the midst of that convo, we learned he's picked up quite the fitting habit.
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But I have decided to speak about it now because I am deeply concerned about the intensified efforts to strip choice and constitutional rights away from pregnant people and the simplistic ways of trying to criminalize abortion.
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In a sign of the Hong Kong government's wish to avoid more convulsions, it has postponed deliberating a second contentious piece of legislation that would criminalize insults to China's national anthem, Hong Kong news media reported Wednesday.
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Dr. Jonas hosts a short q and a talking about the challenges surrounding medical weed, including resistance within the medical community and federal government's strict new laws against impaired driving, which could criminalize patients who medicate daily.
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The case had been closely watched by migrant relief and rescue groups, especially in Denmark and Spain, where the volunteers were from, because their defense lawyers and supporters said it was an attempt to criminalize humanitarian action.
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This could chill and criminalize a wide array of nonviolent activism in ways that have terrifying echoes its infamous Cointelpro program, which investigated and intimidated black civil rights groups and leaders, including Marcus Garvey and the Rev.
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The suit also includes archival material quoting John Ehrlichman, an adviser to President Richard Nixon, saying that the early efforts to criminalize pot were a way to disrupt the hippies and the black community after the 1960s.
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I think that it's something that we all need to not only accept as part of our lives but also not criminalize it, not stigmatize people with H.I.V. and AIDS in our language and in our legislature.
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Flack was vocal about wanting to defend herself against the criticism, and in the days after her death, her supporters have rallied to create Caroline's Law; this pending piece of legislature would criminalize online bullying if passed.
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"Some in the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are abusing their power to criminalize the routine practices of politics and government," Blagojevich wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in May 2018.
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"All this does is add one more law that can be used by police and prosecutors to criminalize people who are stuck on the street," Gary Peck, the former head of the ACLU of Nevada, told KSNV.
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" Despite acknowledging these criticism, Health Canada's statement maintains that the government will move forward in its plans to criminalize possession, production, and sale of W-18, claiming "the decision was taken after careful consideration of several factors.
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During the public notice and comment process for the DEA's plan to criminalize kratom, no vocal grassroots constituency emerged in support of the rule — no Baptist to match whatever economic interests (Bootleggers) may have favored the plan.
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Not only has it empowered the legal system to over-criminalize those found guilty of supporting terrorist organizations, but it also has fueled the clarion call of the extremists who are luring young minds to their ideology.
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So, fast forward to 150 years, here we are now and Mueller wants to criminalize a perfectly legitimate conversation with the attorney general in which he&aposs being scolded for essentially using the wrong regulation to recuse himself?
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" Jamie Williams, a lawyer on the civil liberties team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that although the majority of the appeals panel "says this isn't going to criminalize routine password sharing, its reasoning suggests that it would.
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"No little girl grows up wanting to be a prostitute," declares the homepage of the No Little Girl campaign, a recently launched attempt to criminalize sex work in two of the seven Nevada counties where it's currently legal.
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As wealthy residents from San Francisco to Boston use money and political action to block affordable housing projects and emergency shelters in their neighborhoods, cities are also responding by upping the number of ways to criminalize homeless people.
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Sex workers living with HIV also risk higher amounts of prosecution under laws that criminalize HIV transmission, exposure, and non-disclosure, according to research from the Center for HIV Law and Policy and the National LGBTQ Task Force.
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Washington (CNN)The House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday that would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for instances where the life of the mother is at risk and in cases involving rape or incest.
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If passed, the bill would criminalize abortions in all cases unless the health of the pregnant person was in danger and would make it a Class C felony for a doctor to perform the procedure, according to AL.com.
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"As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors on public property on the false premise that they had a choice in the matter," the panel concluded.
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The current movement to criminalize abortion is no different, and the fact that it's happening in Southern states with high populations of people of color, and almost no support from legislators of color, should be a clear sign.
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Trinidad & Tobago's LGBTQ community on Thursday secured a major victory after the Caribbean island's high court ruled some sections of the long-standing buggery law, that criminalize consensual same-sex relations between adults, unconstitutional, per local media reports.
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The two cases, brought by Brazilian rights group ABGLT and the Popular Socialist Party, ask the court to acknowledge that Congress's failure to criminalize violence against gay people is "unconstitutional" and to set a deadline for legal reform.
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This helped spur the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which did not criminalize psychoactive drugs, but did require labeling and created the foundations of what is now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Last week, the internet exploded with a fairly shocking allegation: President Richard Nixon began America's war on drugs to criminalize black people and hippies, according to a newly revealed 21980 quote from Nixon domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman.
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The move comes amid a wider Trump administration push to criminalize unauthorized border crossings, even in some cases when people enter the country lawfully, such as those who present themselves at legal ports of entry to seek asylum.
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There is "a pattern of policing of Extinction Rebellion which has sought to undermine, criminalize, and brand as extremist those who are taking to nonviolent direct action to bring attention to the climate and ecological emergency," Garnett said.
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In Prague in September, he addressed members of the Workers' Party of Social Justice, which opposes NATO and the European Union, has sought to criminalize homosexuality and has called for the Czech Republic to restore relations with Russia.
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Historically, "cannabis in particular has been so heavily used to target, to criminalize, and to harm racialized and otherwise marginalized communities," Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, previously told Refinery29.
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Kenya passed an act of parliament in April to criminalize doping, but WADA said the country needed to make changes to ensure compliance with the code, which sets a framework for consistent rules and policies around the world.
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"As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter," the appeals court said.
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"There's a tremendous amount of pressure among certain parts of Brazilian society and the media to find something that will criminalize Lula," Sonia Fleury, a political scientist at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, a research center, said earlier this week.
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European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and political foe of the PiS, said the bill had the opposite of its intended effect, tarnishing Poland's name and encouraging the view of history it aimed to criminalize.
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It's been three years since Google, Facebook, and other major tech platforms introduced ways for users to report and remove revenge porn, two years since a bill was introduced in Congress to criminalize the distribution of non-consensual pornography.
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Kendrick, who serves in leadership as the Minority Caucus Chief Deputy Whip, drafted and introduced a "Testicular Bill of Rights," which would criminalize vasectomies and require men to obtain permission from a sexual partner before they could access viagra.
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"We just criminalize the people who have been destabilized by systemic problems, and you know our sex work community falls squarely within that category," Cabán told BuzzFeed News during a recent interview at Mike's Diner in Queens' Astoria neighborhood.
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Others are concerned that minority rights continue to be eroded -- over the past few years police raids and vigilante attacks on members of the LGBT community have increased and last year the country made moves to criminalize homosexual sex.
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During the first hearing on Monday for Ohio Senate Bill 22017, which is seeking to ban and criminalize most second trimester abortions in the state, women filed into the room wearing the costumes at the State House in Columbus.
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We now know, 45 years later, the war on drugs wasn't meant to make America safer or more productive -- it was meant to mute President Richard Nixon's toughest critics, to criminalize black people and so-called anti-war hippies.
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"While the Trump administration has so far not attempted to explicitly declare the act of publishing illegal, a core part of its argument would criminalize many common journalist-source interactions that reporters rely on all the time," Timms said.
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Laws punishing people with HIV were initially enacted in states in 2628 when the federal Ryan White Care Act was passed, requiring that states criminalize intentional transmission of HIV in order to receive federal funding for HIV-related programs.
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"Texas Senate Bill 6 (SB6) and House Bill 1362 (HB1362) would criminalize and restrict the simple act of a transgender person using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity — a denial of basic human dignity," the letter reads.
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In March, Kenya's Court of Appeal deemed it illegal to subject men to anal testing as a way to criminalize "same-sex sexual acts" because of a case taken on by the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
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A concrete timeline hasn't been set, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's already complicated plan to legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana could be further disrupted by three international treaties that criminalize the production and possession of the drug.
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But she warned that state lawmakers who rush to criminalize people for seeking documentation of a need for a support animal are sending the wrong message to landlords, who are at risk of getting slapped with hefty federal fines.
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What kind of party would show such support for a leader who is not only evidently corrupt and seemingly in the pocket of foreign dictators, but also routinely denies facts and tries to criminalize anyone who points them out?
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In Europe, several countries have moved in recent years to criminalize sexual harassment, including Portugal, where the left-leaning government in 2015 made verbal sexual abuse a crime with a fine of up to 120 euros, or about $142.
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The Online Privacy Act goes beyond much of the legislation that has been introduced by Congress in the aftermath of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, even including some measures to criminalize doxxing or the sharing of personal information without consent.
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Increased scrutiny of Chinese influence — along with moves to strengthen espionage laws, outlaw foreign political donations and criminalize political interference — are raising fears of a backlash that would squash legitimate debate and unfairly target the country's growing Chinese population.
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I'm actually working on another project [with Montreal filmmaker Karin Hazé], called "75 Shots," where we go to countries that criminalize homosexuality— there are about 75 of them— and empower the locals to tell their own stories on film.
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Nevertheless, it is unnerving that such a significant percentage of Latinx voters could vote for candidates who aligned with a president hell-bent on rhetoric and policies that criminalize and demonize people from Mexico, Central America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
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They created crimes, such as disobedience and "disrespect to the employer," that could be enforced in a way that would target and criminalize black people in particular, according to a 2016 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, an advocacy group.
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The Flag Protection Act of 1989 was supported at the time by President George H.W. Bush, before it was ruled unconstitutional, and the Flag Protection Act of 2005, another failed attempt to criminalize flag burning, was co-sponsored by then-Sen.
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"My instinct is that this is driven by politics, and is part of the overall effort to stigmatize and eventually criminalize abortion, as well as part of a larger campaign to roll-back the clock on sexual and reproductive rights."
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Through the ruling, Virginia said that if a particular state or public entity (like GMU) believes it has an interest in preventing BDSM activity or passing laws that criminalize the practice, they can, and those prosecuted now have no legal recourse.
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PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New laws being drafted in Cambodia on commercial surrogacy must not criminalize surrogate mothers, women's rights campaigners said on Friday, after 11 women jailed for agreeing to carry a client's baby were released from prison.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a set of controversial measures into law Monday that criminalize the dissemination of information online that "exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia," the Washington Post reports.
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Seven states have laws that explicitly make self-managed abortion illegal while others have arrested and prosecuted women based on laws against harm to a fetus or laws that criminalize abortion and are misapplied to people who independently end a pregnancy.
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Ann Wagner (R-MO) in April, would criminalize the publishing of information "with reckless disregard" that was "in furtherance of" a sex trafficking offense — a sweepingly vague definition that could encompass any number of services that host user-submitted content.
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Trump campaigned on promises to create a federal registry of American Muslims, discriminate against transgender people, stop almost all immigration, increase deportation of undocumented people, criminalize women's reproductive choices, punish dissidents and political opponents, and restrict access to the ballot.
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At the same time, Trump again raised with Xi his concern about the synthetic opioid fentanyl being sent from China to the United States, urging the Chinese leader to place it in a "restricted category" of drugs that would criminalize it.
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"We are seeing an influx of laws being passed that criminalize women who have abortions and abortion providers, and yet we never discuss male partners and how they may benefit from access to abortion," she told Reuters Health by email.
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Second, by citing "improved conditions in Haiti" and existing programs such as Temporary Protected Status and Haitian Family Reunification Parole, the Administration is being deliberately misleading and contradicts itself in the decision to criminalize Haitian nationals arriving at the border.
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Six countries which are home to 16 million girls - Chad, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan - still do not even criminalize FGM, according to a major report examining laws in the 28 African countries where the tradition is endemic.
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Given the extensive research that shows that young people who are nonwhite, low income, gay or transgender are disproportionately prosecuted for many crimes, there is good reason to suspect that laws that criminalize teenage sexting are being unfairly applied as well.
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In her recent book Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks argued that current models of data collection and algorithmic decision-making create what she calls a "digital poorhouse," which serves to control collective resources, police our social behavior, and criminalize non-compliance.
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The bill would also strike prohibitions on "promoting" prostitution, which can be used to criminalize any group of sex workers who work together, whether that is in the same workplace or remotely by helping each other advertise or screen potential clients.
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For the longest time a pre-internet law limited to "the placing of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest" by "transmission in interstate or foreign commerce" was interpreted much more broadly to criminalize all manner of gambling.
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Authorities summoned Negad al-Borai, a prominent defense attorney and rights advocate, for several interrogations on charges of "broadcasting false information" and "disturbing public security" after his firm sent to President al-Sisi a draft bill that would criminalize torture.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that states cannot make it a crime for a drunken driving suspect to refuse to take a blood test but can criminalize the refusal to take breath tests to determine alcohol levels.
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New York-based media rights watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned last week however that the bill could criminalize free speech, "with journalists and bloggers likely to be among the first victims if it is signed into law".
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a series of bills that would criminalize the spreading of "fake news" or "blatant disrespect" for the state, but which critics say is intended to chill free speech critical of the government.
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Normally, this run-of-the-mill event would receive little or no media attention, but DOJ officials linked the group to the migrant caravan, a charge denied by organizers, who accused DOJ of attempting to "criminalize" the Central American refugees.
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Martha McSally wants Congress to criminalize domestic terrorism — a move that comes amid bipartisan calls for the federal government to do more about the threat of domestic terror (and bipartisan concerns that the move could have unexpected, and negative, consequences).
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Yet the use of this drug can be illegal: A handful of states outlaw self-induced abortion, and other states have found ways to use existing laws to criminalize people who share misoprostol or use it to prompt a miscarriage.
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Since those interactions today are largely electronic, prosecutors are seeking to criminalize journalism by turning to anti-hacking laws to implicate reporters in the purported criminal activity of their sources in gaining access to data on computers or cellphones without authorization.
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Of the 193 countries recognized by the United Nations, the following criminalize same-sex relations, according to the Geneva-based International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, which advocates on behalf of more than 1,300 member organizations across the world.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's president ordered parliament on Friday to delay voting on a bill to criminalize extra-marital and gay sex, amid protests and criticism from rights groups and after major tourist market Australia warned its citizens about the plan.
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Washington (CNN)The South Dakota House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would criminalize doctors who assist in the gender reassignment process for transgender youth, pushing the state closer to becoming the first to pass such a restriction.
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" READ: Italy is trying to criminalize migrant rescue boats He said the survivors, who would now almost certainly be returned to their home countries, were in "the condition that people who emerge from deep trauma like this are always in.
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Meanwhile, "fetal assault" laws and others making it a crime to harm a fetus can be used to criminalize people who self-manage their abortions, doing the procedure at home with medication ordered online or otherwise obtained outside a clinical setting.
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"President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and the Constitutional Council should reject changes to Burkina Faso's penal code that criminalize disseminating information and reporting on security concerns," said Angela Quintal, Africa program coordinator for New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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"We warn that the government is taking advantage of this incident ... to criminalize those who legitimately and democratically oppose it and deepen the repression and systematic human rights violations," wrote the Broad Front opposition coalition in a statement published on Twitter.
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"When you criminalize people asking for help, they're not able to meet their basic needs that are necessary to survive; it can lead to people losing their liberty," said Micah West, senior staff attorney at the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center.
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It's unclear why Flynn would have lied, but there are laws that could criminalize such behavior such as the Logan Act, a scarcely enforced law that prohibits unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments that have a dispute with the United States.
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"SB 164 is the latest in a long, and apparently unending, list of bills in Ohio and across the nation that criminalize abortion," said Gary Daniels, chief lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, in a press release earlier this month.
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"We have a slew of laws that are trying to criminalize trans folks, particularly HB2 in North Carolina," Cox told CNN, referring to the North Carolina bill that requires trans people to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificates.
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This position would not only criminalize abortions in the case of rape and incest but would prohibit the use of contraceptive methods that are understood to prevent the uterine implantation of a fertilized egg like the intrauterine device and the morning-after pill.
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Black life in America continues to be subject to racist, institutional forces that deny access to citizenship and the rule of law and then, in an outrageous rhetorical sleight of hand, criminalize African-Americans as being undeserving of citizenship or legal protection.
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While international law absolutely limits the application of the death penalty to the "most serious crimes", which refers to intentional killing, the mullahs' so-called laws and constitution criminalize various measures and sentence people to death under such terms, not seen anywhere else.
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The justices said in the context of statutory rape offenses that criminalize sexual intercourse based solely on the ages of the participants, the generic federal definition of "sexual abuse of a minor" requires the age of the victim to be less than 16.
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"It could very easily be turned into a statute similar to the statutes that we have that criminalize conducting terrorism on behalf of a foreign power, and that would put our investigators on a very different footing to attack this problem," McCabe said.
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The suit, in which Mr. Mckesson is joined as a named plaintiff by two other protesters who were also arrested, says that the police "employed unconstitutional tactics to disturb, disrupt, infringe upon and criminalize" the constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.
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And the show, working with the Broadway League, is urging lawmakers in Albany to criminalize the use of bots — now a civil violation — and this week its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, wrote an op-ed piece calling for legislative action.
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The trial took place against the backdrop of what some see as a larger crackdown on dissent here, including a ban on protests, the introduction of a bill that would criminalize defamation, and the closing of the country's most popular newspaper, Haveeru.
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E.U. members have yet to fully carry out the European Agenda on Security directive, adopted by the European Commission last April, which is specifically intended to improve counterterrorism cooperation among European nations and to criminalize activities like traveling abroad for terrorist purposes.
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" In their summary of the opinion, the judges wrote, "As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.
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" More told CNN, "I'm running to bring a balance to make sure the most dangerous among us are off our streets and not to criminalize poverty by keeping people in jail, awaiting trial who don't have a violent record and have shoplifted something.
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But a thunderous backlash has now erupted — with a public outcry condemning anyone accused of links to Chinese influence, and a series of new bills that would strengthen espionage laws, outlaw foreign political donations and criminalize efforts to interfere in Australian democracy.
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The Ohio State Medical Association has pushed back against the bill and is "very concerned" about its plan to criminalize doctors for performing a medical procedure that could be considered a standard of care, said Reggie Fields, a spokesman for the organization.
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A Senate bill introduced in March would criminalize supporting the boycott, slapping anyone who violates the would-be law's terms with a minimum civil fine of $250,000 and a maximum criminal punishment of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison.
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"The city is not empowered to regulate or prohibit or criminalize, in this case, artistic expression on a person's own property," said Gerry Weber, a lawyer who represents Mr. Williams and who, in 2006, negotiated a settlement to a separate graffiti ordinance.
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"We have courts that are completely out of balance that have been taken over by activist judges who certainly, absolutely want to end Roe and criminalize abortion," said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which co-sponsored the forum on Saturday.
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With this law, Wyoming joins a growing list of other states that mandate abortion reporting above and beyond what is necessary for public health purposes, creating requirements that experts say intimidate patients and providers, and could even be used to criminalize abortion.
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A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge against the government's use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of masks at rallies to quell anti-government demonstrations, which diminished in intensity but didn't stop.
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" In a newsletter published the following month by South Dakota's Legislative Research Council, that lawmaker, Republican state Representative Fred Deutsch, said he had brought home an idea from the summit: to "establish legislation to criminalize doctors that provide sex change operations in children.
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Dehumanizing colonial law Out of the estimated 3773 former British colonies that criminalize homosexuality, 30 still have laws based on the original colonial anti-LGBT legislation, according to Lucas Mendos, co-author of the 2017 International LGBTI Association "State-Sponsored Homophobia" report.
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The concern instead is a broader movement from pro-Israel advocates to stigmatize and criminalize their opponents, one that ranges from monitoring groups like the Canary Mission to state and federal legislation aimed at destroying the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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But they enacted measures that expand the criminal trespass law, raise penalties for riot offenses, criminalize wearing masks and hoods while violating the law, and make it easier for out-of-state police officers to assist local authorities during events like protests.
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They say that the bill, which appears set for approval this year, would allow the government to obtain private citizens' data without a warrant and criminalize internet users who publish comments or content about other citizens, including political figures, which is deemed defamatory.
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The book, which explores how 19th-century British laws gave the government new ways to punish and criminalize same-sex relationships, was expected to go on sale in the United States on June 18, with an announced first print run of 35,000 copies.
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Yet the ruling was delivered only weeks after the High Court of Kenya upheld laws that criminalize gay sex, underscoring the wide differences in how L.B.G.T. people are treated across Africa, where views have been shaped by religion, diverse governments and colonial history.
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Already in 2017, Arkansas passed a statute that would criminalize doctors who perform dilation and evacuation (the most common second-trimester procedure), and also permit husbands to sue to prevent their wives from obtaining abortions—with no exceptions even for rape or incest.
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Among other arguments, lawyers for Napout, Marin, and Burga are expected to tell the jury that the case is plagued by prosecutorial overreach, with the US attempting to apply its laws to foreign countries and thus criminalize behavior they suggest is commonly accepted practice abroad.
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Public policies related to drugs should focus on a few crucial components: keeping people alive, building in a public health approach and ensuring that people who use drugs have access to services that do not criminalize their behavior, but rather provide them with comprehensive care.
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For example, critics have noted that provisions in the agreement would make it easier for corporations to sue governments over lost profits, encourage website blocking over copyright, criminalize tinkering and hacking, continue degrading the environment, and force public corporations to act like private businesses.
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And as the months have dragged on since his indictment—he has been living in Los Angeles on bail—the latest developments in the case have stoked further fears among white hat hackers that the Department of Justice wants to criminalize their public-interest research.
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If you criminalize poverty, it's not hard to see how you end up with people being arrested for asking for a subway swipe—an arrest deepens the cycle of poverty by making them miss work, a job interview, or picking their kid up from school.
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Although some cities have made strides for homeless populations, others concerned with public health, tourism and image have taken steps to drive away or criminalize people living on the street, who make up about 25% of the world's urban population, according to the United Nations.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and star of the musical Hamilton, penned an op-ed in The New York Times this morning asking New Yorkers to support a bill that would criminalize the use of bots in the ticket resale industry.
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The Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly noted that Wilson's arrest and indictment went unannounced by the Justice Department for a variety of factors, including that federal law considers domestic terrorism to be a "second-class threat" and doesn't criminalize all forms of politically motivated violence.
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Germany, which did not criminalize marital rape until 1997, has one of the worst records in Europe for protecting its women from sexual violence, said Brendan Wynne, a spokesman for Equality Now, an international rights organization that lobbies for better protection for women and girls.
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Undoubtedly a timely topic, given the president's campaign to criminalize immigrants and build that wall, Iñárritu's work explores the human conditions of the tens of thousands of Latin American refugees and immigrants who come to the U.S. each year in search of a better life.
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In the last year, we've seen increased arrests and prosecutions for participation in peaceful protests, immigrant activists picked up for deportation and, most recently, confirmation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is surveilling black activists in an effort to criminalize people engaged in legal protest.
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It seems to me that if the government of Indiana, so eager to criminalize what it cleverly labels discrimination abortions, was actually willing to help families cope with children who need intensive, lifelong care, it would be possible to imagine having a different conversation.
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Jag Davies, director of communications strategy at the Drug Policy Alliance, points out that the Drug Enforcement Agency has the power to criminalize kratom—it already considered making it Schedule I, on the same prohibition level as heroin, until users raised a public outcry.
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Black survivors, who are often reticent to report sexual assaults to the same officers who criminalize their family and friends, and Native American survivors, who are often barred from pressing criminal charges against non-Native perpetrators in tribal courts, have long argued for alternatives.
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Efforts to change national laws include a bill before Parliament that would ban alcohol and a petition by an Islamist group before the Constitutional Court that gay sex be outlawed and that the adultery law be broadened to criminalize sex between any unmarried people.
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Antifa Seven Hills, based in Richmond, are opposing the slew of gun bills introduced by the newly Democratic Legislature since November, because they say those types of laws are used primarily to criminalize poor people, minorities, and leftists — and to bolster law enforcement's power.
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Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in an interview that one of the latest tactics spreading around the globe is the creation of vaguely worded "fake news" laws that criminalize news that government officials deem to be wrong.
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Asked why nobody had raised the alarm in Alcanar, the town south of Barcelona where terrorists stored over 100 gas cylinders in their bomb-making house, Major Trapero said, "We have to be cautious not to criminalize the ones who didn't see or act."
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The CFAA is infamously vaguely written and makes it illegal to access a "protected computer" without or in excess of "authorization"—opening the door to sweeping interpretations that could be used to criminalize conduct not even close to what would traditionally be understood as hacking.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo's decision to delay a planned vote in parliament on a new penal code that would criminalize sex outside marriage and gay sex was met by relief from some but sparked criticism from conservative Muslims who back the new bill.
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"Relying primarily on overly broad laws that criminalize activity such as causing 'sectarian strife' or insulting 'higher authorities,' the [Palestinian Authority] and Hamas use detention to punish critics and deter them and others from further activism," wrote Human Rights Watch, or HRW, in the report.
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It means when I see an accident or someone who is in need of help, my desire and willingness to help deteriorates, not because I don't want to do the right thing but because I fear that somehow the police will target and criminalize me.
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According to reports in both The Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers, the British government is considering a new UK law that would criminalize both whistleblowers and journalists who take and report information from whistleblowers, even if they are acting to uncover information in the public interest.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill to criminalize "the promotion of underage sexual activity," in a move seen by some as a government effort to court conservative support and which outraged liberals who say the bill aims to ban sex education.
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Castro said it's time to "go back to the way we used to treat this when somebody comes across the border, not to criminalize desperation, to treat that as a civil violation," adding that the authorities often use Section 1325 to justify separating families at the border.
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Barclays was the first of 11 banks and brokerages to pay hefty fines for Libor-related misconduct in 2012, sparking a political backlash that forced out senior executives including former CEO Bob Diamond, prompted the SFO investigation and brought in new laws to criminalize rate rigging.
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So, you know, this notion that, somehow or another, someone who is a supporter, someone who is a donor, somebody who's an activist, saying I want access, I want to come into a room and I want to meet people, we often criminalize behavior that is normal.
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"When you're talking about consenting adults, yes I think we should consider that we can't criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed, but at the point that anyone is being harmed or exploited, then we have to understand that's a different matter."
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According to an in-depth 2017 study from Amnesty International, laws that subject pregnant women to additional surveillance and criminalize their actions are a violation of their human rights, including the right to health, the right to privacy, and the right to equality and non-discrimination.
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"Tonight Trump made good on his campaign promise to install a justice on the Supreme Court with one singular goal, which is to end Roe and criminalize abortion in this country," Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said in an interview with The Hill.
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Whether 911 calls are made because of hate, implicit bias or the perception that black people don't belong wherever they may be, when the police come, they often criminalize the perceived trespassers, automatically assuming that the white caller's accusations are correct and the black person is guilty.
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As legislators have tried to cope with the legal fallout, they have also opened up more types of images to scrutiny: While child pornography laws apply only to sexually explicit images, many new sexting laws criminalize all nude images of teenagers, including photos of topless teenage girls.
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After Roy's death and Carter's trial, Medwed helped create a bill in Massachusetts to criminalize "coerced suicide", which would target a narrower range of behaviors, such as encouraging or manipulating someone into suicide or a suicide attempt, despite knowing that the victim previously considered or attempted suicide.
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And what a power surge to take the ever-elastic federal conspiracy statute (Section 371, punishing agreements to commit crimes Congress has defined) and stretch it into a vague new offense, "Conspiracy against the United States" — by which prosecutors can criminalize conduct Congress has not outlawed.
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Now, obviously no rational American wants the FBI arresting people because of their opinions, even though the Obama Justice Department and several Attorneys General are trying very hard to criminalize as "hate speech" anyone who cites scientific data showing that man-made global warming isn't happening.
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In our nation's worst recent moments of anti-immigrant politics—such as when Arizona and other states attempted to enact unconstitutional laws to criminalize immigrants—these personal stories have made the difference in reminding Americans what we stand for: keeping families together and safeguarding opportunities for all.
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" ICE's attempt to criminalize Abraham-Joseph's recent past simply is not reflected in his lawyer's response: Abraham-Joseph supports three U.S. citizen children and, according to his lawyer's statement continues to "make contributions to our society that rival any of those by a natural born citizen.
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Why it matters: 2018 is not just about the national races — the group is pushing Democrats to focus their efforts at the state level, arguing that if Dems can break any of the states' GOP trifectas then they'll be able to avoid efforts to criminalize abortion.
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