Documents
Review appendices of relevant statutes from nine key states
Watch a brief presentation by two of the report's authors from the 2021 SCJN Conference (Aug. 20, 2021).
Webinar with the Report Authors (Nov. 30, 2021)
Media Coverage
- New Report from Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Highlights the Threat of Abortion Criminalization, NACDL News Release, August 18, 2021
- Defense Lawyers Sound Alarm Over Abortion Criminalization, by Katheryn Tucker, Daily Report/Law.com, August 23, 2021
- Texas poised to ban most abortions as court denies emergency motion, by Jessica Glenza, The Guardian, August 30, 2021
- L’accès à l’avortement menacé, by Marc Thibodeau, La Presse, August 31, 2021
- Criminal convictions for abortion, miscarriage? Texas abortion ban previews life without Roe v. Wade, by Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th News, September 2, 2021
- She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be in Prison?, by Cecilia Nowell, New York Magazine, September 20, 2021
- Opinion: When a Miscarriage Is Manslaughter, by Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, October 18, 2021
- Ending Roe Could Send More Women to Prison for Miscarrying, by Bobbie Stein, Slate, October 19, 2021
- How State Abortion Bans Could Create New Criminals, by Bobbie Stein, The Progressive Magazine, October 22, 2021
- Unequal Justice: The End of Legal Abortion Looms, by Bill Blum, The Progressive Magazine, November 16, 2021
- What will US’s future look like if abortion becomes a crime again?, by Jessica Glenza, The Guardian, November 29, 2021
- Roe v. Wade Being Overturned Will Harm Black Women the Most, by Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, November 29, 2021
- Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Lead to More Women Being Jailed for Miscarriages, by Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, November 30, 2021
- Pro-choice activists want to change the way we talk about abortions, by Alex Lasker, In the Know, December 22, 2021
- Anti-abortion movement's big plan: Supercharged "crisis pregnancy centers" and data harvesting, by Kathryn Joyce, Salon, February 12, 2022
- Texas Woman Lizelle Herrera’s Arrest Foreshadows Post-Roe Future, by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine, April 16, 2022
- If Roe v. Wade is overturned, Texas district attorney offices would become a new battleground, by Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune, April 21, 2022
- Abortion, Prison and the Death Penalty, by Jodie Sinclair, The Crime Report, May 4, 2022
- The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy, by Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, May 5, 2022
- ‘A severe chilling effect’: abortion bans will inhibit doctors’ advice to patients, experts fear, by Jessica Glenza, The Guardian, May 6, 2022
- Texas Abortion Funds Work to Reduce Looming Harms of Post-“Roe” Criminalization, by Candice Bernd, Truthout, May 6, 2022
- NY lawmakers push to prevent abortion clinics from facing out-of-state lawsuits, by Caroline Lewis, Gothamist, May 9, 2022
- Unequal Justice: Samuel Alito and the Criminalization of Abortion, by Bill Blum, Progressive Magazine, May 10, 2022
- Who will be prosecuted for abortion if fetuses are recognized as people?, by Noa Yachot, The Guardian, May 18, 2022