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10-06-2025
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West Virginia Prosecutor Warns Women That a Miscarriage Could Lead to Criminal Charge: ‘It's a Different World Now'
West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman warned the public that having a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges in the state, where there's a strict ban on abortion He claims that some prosecutors may try to charge a person for a miscarriage using state laws related to the disposal of human remains Reproductive experts say it's a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive lifeA West Virginia prosecutor is sending out a warning that having a miscarriage could lead to serious legal repercussions in the state. Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, West Virginia enacted a near-total ban on abortion. The procedure is illegal in the state with exceptions for a nonviable pregnancy or medical emergency. Additionally, survivors of rape and incest can receive an abortion only if a police report has been filed. Licensed medical professionals who violate the law by performing or inducing abortions can face felony charges, punishable by three to 10 years in prison. The law currently does not criminalize the pregnant person for having an abortion. Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman explained that in conversations with fellow prosecutors several years ago, some expressed that they could charge a person who had a miscarriage using state laws related to the disposal of human remains. 'I thought these guys were just chewing on a Dreamsicle,' he told CNN, noting that he personally would never prosecute someone for a miscarriage. ! Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. However, Truman said West Virginia's legal statutes include definitions that are 'pretty broad-ranging' and with the end of Roe v. Wade, prosecutors may interpret that the law means people who miscarry could face criminal charges, including felonies. 'It's a different world now, and there's a lot of discretion that prosecutors have, and some of them have agendas where they would like to make you an example,' he said. 'What's changed is, Roe isn't there anymore, and so that may embolden prosecutors in some cases. I'm just trying to say, be careful.' Kim Mutcherson — a professor of law at Rutgers Law School who specializes in reproductive justice — told the outlet that grey areas surrounding reproductive laws will ultimately be dangerous for pregnant people. 'It's always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life,' she said. 'If they then decide, 'no, it actually wasn't a miscarriage, this was somebody who took pills,' or whatever sort of thing that they want to conjure up, then all of a sudden it goes from 'here's this poor woman who had a miscarriage' to 'here's a person who we're going to start to prosecute.' ' Brittany Fonteno, CEO of the National Abortion Federation, encouraged anyone experiencing a miscarriage to contact a qualified medical professional and avoid any involvement of law enforcement. 'The laws, the rhetoric, the culture in which we are living in within the U.S. has become so incredibly hostile to people who experience pregnancy,' she told CNN. 'I think that the intersection of health care and criminalization is an incredibly dangerous path,' Fonteno added. 'As a country, we should be supporting people and their ability to access the health care that they need, rather than conducting intrusive and traumatic investigations into their reproductive lives.' Read the original article on People
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Politics
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A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges
Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law. Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman says that although he personally wouldn't prosecute someone for a miscarriage, he made the suggestion out of an abundance of caution after hearing from other prosecutors. Truman even suggests people might want to let local law enforcement know if they've have a miscarriage. Several reproductive law experts say people around the country have, indeed, faced charges related to miscarriages — but they still wouldn't recommend reaching out to law enforcement. Truman says the idea first came up during a chat with other West Virginia prosecutors at a conference several years ago, and it's been been an ongoing conversation since. The initial conversation was theoretical, since at the time, women in the US still had the constitutional right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade. But some of the prosecutors believed they could charge a person using state laws related to the disposal of human remains. 'I thought these guys were just chewing on a Dreamsicle,' Truman said. But, he added, West Virginia's legal statutes include definitions that are 'pretty broad-ranging.' The way some prosecutors may interpret the law means people who miscarry could face criminal charges, including felonies, he said. 'It's a different world now, and there's a lot of discretion that prosecutors have, and some of them have agendas where they would like to make you an example,' Truman told CNN. 'What's changed is, Roe isn't there anymore, and so that may embolden prosecutors in some cases,' he said. 'I'm just trying to say, 'be careful.' ' Early pregnancy loss is common, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, It happens in about 10 of 100 known pregnancies, often because the embryo isn't developing properly. And some reproductive law experts say it's probably not a good idea to call the police when it happens. 'It's always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life,' said Kim Mutcherson, a professor of law at Rutgers Law School who specializes in reproductive justice. Calling police could prompt an unwanted investigation, she says. 'If they then decide, 'no, it actually wasn't a miscarriage, this was somebody who took pills,' or whatever sort of thing that they want to conjure up, then all of a sudden it goes from 'here's this poor woman who had a miscarriage' to 'here's a person who we're going to start to prosecute,' ' Mutcherson said. 'I understand the idea that caution is better than being caught up in something that you weren't anticipating, but it is difficult for me to imagine any circumstance in which I would think it was safe for someone who miscarried to call the police,' she added. Abortion is illegal in West Virginia, but there are exceptions in the case of a medical emergency or a nonviable pregnancy, or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Kulsoom Ijaz, senior policy counsel with Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit focused on the civil and human rights of pregnant people, said she doesn't believe there is anything in West Virginia law that criminalizes miscarriage. 'I think the law is pretty clear,' she said. 'There's nothing in the law that says someone can be charged with a crime in connection to their pregnancy loss or their conduct during pregnancy, or for how they respond to that pregnancy loss or miscarriage or stillbirth.' The fractured landscape of reproductive rights that came about in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the US Supreme Court ruling that revoked the federal right to an abortion, has increased the risk that a pregnant person can face criminal prosecution for a variety of reasons, not just a miscarriage, according to a report from Ijaz's organization. Between June 2022 – when Dobbs was handed down – and June 2023, there were more than 200 cases in the US in which a pregnant person faced criminal charges for conduct associated with pregnancy, pregnancy loss or birth, according to Pregnancy Justice. The number is most likely an undercount, Ijaz said. In West Virginia, there were at least three cases related to pregnancy prosecutions. In one, the state's Supreme Court found that the state could not levy criminal child abuse charges against someone for their prenatal conduct, which included substance use during pregnancy. Even with the strict abortion ban in place, Ijaz said, 'there are still protections for pregnant people.' In states like Alabama that have fetal personhood laws that give fertilized eggs, embryos and a fetus the 'same rights as you and I,' Ijaz said, it's a little different. 'We've seen people get prosecuted and face decades of incarceration for substance use during pregnancy, because that fetus that they're carrying is seen as a child,' she said. Last year in Ohio, a woman who had a miscarriage at home was charged with a felony on the advice of the Warren City Prosecutor's Office, but a grand jury dismissed the case. Ijaz said that she doesn't think there is an appetite for these kind of cases among the public but that no matter where someone lives, inviting the law into their life right after a miscarriage is ill-advised. The legal landscape for reproductive justice 'seems to almost be changing on a daily basis' – and generally not in favorable ways for pregnant people, said Brittany Fonteno, CEO of the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for abortion providers. 'The laws, the rhetoric, the culture in which we are living in within the US has become so incredibly hostile to people who experience pregnancy,' she said. 'I think that the intersection of health care and criminalization is an incredibly dangerous path,' Fonteno added. 'As a country, we should be supporting people and their ability to access the health care that they need, rather than conducting intrusive and traumatic investigations into their reproductive lives.' Fonteno recommends that people who experience pregnancy loss reach out to a qualified medical professional rather than law enforcement. 'While we are living in a very different country than we were pre-Dobbs, I believe still that this is an individual experience and a health care decision,' she said. 'Most providers believe that as well.' Mutcherson also says that the reproductive justice landscape in the US is 'scary' for people who are pregnant, who want to get pregnant or who have bad pregnancy outcomes. If there's any silver lining to the discussion about criminalizing miscarriage, she said, it's that it's good for people to know that such things can happen. 'Women have been criminalized for their pregnancies for decades, frankly, so to the extent that there is a wider and broader conversation about what it means to treat an embryo or a fetus as a person, and the ways in which that diminishes the personhood of somebody who was pregnant, that is in fact a valuable thing, right?' Mutcherson said. 'Maybe this is actually going to bring us to a better space.'
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Sabrina Carpenter Releases ‘Manchild,' Courting Song of the Summer Status With a Knock on No-Good Guys: ‘Half Your Brain Ain't There… I Like My Men All Incompetent'
The music video will have to wait till Friday morning, but Sabrina Carpenter dropped the audio version of her new single, 'Manchild,' Thursday evening, and initial responses were strong, with some fans confidently predicting the upbeat number is strong enough to contend in the Song of the Summer race. Even if not every guy will necessarily be singing along. Carpenter talked about the creation of the song in an Instagram post. 'I wrote 'Manchild' on a random Tuesday with Amy and Jack not too long after finishing 'Short n' Sweet' and it ended up being the best random Tuesday of my life,' the singer wrote, referring to Jack Antonoff — who co-produced the track with her — and Amy Allen. More from Variety Sabrina Carpenter to Release New Single, 'Manchild' Maren Morris on Addressing Divorce, Religion and a Single Woman's Freedom in Pop-Leaning 'Dreamsicle' Album: 'It's Taken Me Years to Live Up to the Boldness of My Own Music' Airbnb Will Let You Book Celeb-Hosted 'Experiences' With Megan Thee Stallion, Sabrina Carpenter, Seventeen, Patrick Mahomes and More 'Not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life. It sounds like the song embodiment of a loving eye roll and it feels like a never ending road trip in the summer! Hence why i wanted to give it to you now — so you can stick your head out the car window and scream it all summer long!' She concluded, 'Thank you always and forever for listening' — although she added a P.S. that indicated not everyone out there is such a good listener: 'And thank you men for testing me!!' The new tune is very much in the tradition of 'Please, Please, Please' and other songs that have found Carpenter putting members of the opposite sex in their collective place. Following an introductory, '80s-sounding synth riff that sounds almost straight out of 'What a Fool Believes,' Carpenter comically lays into one fool in particular. 'Manchild, why you always come a-runnin' to me?' she sings. 'Fuck my life, won't you let an innocent woman be? / Never heard of self-care / Half your brain just ain't there…' But she takes some credit for her own poor choices: 'Oh, I like my boys playin' hard to get / And I like my men all incompetent.' The video will not come out till Friday at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT, but fans already have a pretty strong indicator of how it'll start off, with both a brief teaser video and the single's digital cover portraying Carpenter hitchhiking in the southwestern desert in high heels and the world's shortest short-shorts. The song is widely assumed to be the first single from Carpenter's seventh album, although no actual news has been promised along those lines. Her IG comments saying she just wanted to put it out for summer could be a deflection against expectations that any full-length project is immediately looming, especially when the deluxe version of her last album is still a weekly staple of the Billboard 200 chart. As she did with her mega hit 'Espresso' for Coachella last year, Carpenter will likely give the song its live debut during her festival appearance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Animated Program — Can Netflix Score Big With 'Arcane,' 'Devil May Cry' and the Final Season of 'Big Mouth?' What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Wet Leg Will Lather Up North America in ‘Moisturizer' on New Tour
'Party in the USA' by Miley Cyrus served as the background music for Wet Leg's tour announcement — and we think that's beautiful. On Thursday, the Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers-fronted band announced the 19-stop North American tour celebrating their upcoming album, Moisturizer. The North American tour will kick off in September in Seattle, before the group makes its way to Portland, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and El Paso, before closing the run at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on Oct. 17. Mary in the Junkyard will join the band on the road for the U.S. dates. More from Rolling Stone Eric Church Maps Out Free the Machine Tour Beyoncé Delivers Powerful Statement on Country at Stunning 'Cowboy Carter' Tour Opener Maren Morris Announces Extensive 'Dreamsicle' 2025 World Tour 'Moistourizer is coming to get you north america… 😈' the band wrote on Instagram. 'Yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a party in the USA.' Tickets for the Moisturizer run will go on sale to the general public on May 8 at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can also presale tickets starting. on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The tour will arrive nearly two months after the release of the band's sophomore album, Moisturizer, which they preceded with the single 'Catch These Fists' last month. The band is also scheduled to tour the United Kingdom this month. 'We were just kind of having fun and exploring,' Chambers said in a statement at the time. The album will also feature songs such as 'Pond Song,' 'Pokemon,' 'Jennifer's Body,' and '11:21.' Wet Leg's North American tour dates Sept. 1 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount TheatreSept. 3 – Vancouver, BC @ Malkin BowlSept. 5 – Portland, OR @ Revolution HallSept. 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ First AvenueSept. 10 – Chicago, IL @ Salt ShedSept. 12 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORYSept. 13 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUSSept. 14 – Boston, MA @ RoadrunnerSept. 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music HallSept. 17 – New York, NY @ Summerstage in Central ParkSept. 19 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 ClubSept. 21 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky KneesSept. 30 – Oakland, CA @ Fox TheaterOct. 3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial TheatreOct. 7 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The CriterionOct. 14 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow PalaceOct. 17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Marren Morris Misses The Albums Chart For The First Time
Maren Morris's Dreamsicle debuts at No. 28 on the Top Album Sales chart but misses the Billboard ... More 200, marking a commercial low in her major label career. INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Maren Morris performs with Zedd at the Outdoor Theatre during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo byfor Coachella) It was almost a decade ago that Maren Morris broke out as one of the most exciting new names in country music. She did so with her major label debut album Hero and its singles "My Church" and "80s Mercedes," which both hit the Billboard charts and made a significant impact in 2016. Lately, Morris has been shaking things up, trying new styles and even stepping away from the country space where she got her start. The plan hasn't worked out as she hoped, and her new album Dreamsicle has turned out to be something of a commercial disappointment — the first of its kind for the singer-songwriter. Dreamsicle was released earlier in May and reaches just one Billboard chart this week, now that its first full tracking frame has concluded. The set opens at No. 28 on the Top Album Sales chart. Luminate reports that it sold a little over 2,900 copies in its first tracking period. Sadly, that's the only roster in the United States where Morris launches her latest project. Dreamsicle is now the first major label album by Morris to miss the Billboard 200, which ranks the most consumed albums in America. Her first three full-length projects with Columbia — Hero, Girl, and Humble Quest — all debuted on the list when they were brand new. She peaked at No. 4 with her sophomore effort Girl in 2019. Three years ago, Humble Quest brought her to a new low of No. 21, but her latest set doesn't even manage to crack the ranking. Since the album veers away from country stylings and into a more adult contemporary pop sound, it didn't leave a mark in the country space either. Morris also misses the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart for the first time in her career with a new full-length major label release (she did share several albums as an independent artist that didn't chart). Girl stands out as her highest-rising win, as it missed out on hitting No. 1 by just one space. Hero peaked at No. 4, while Humble Quest counted No. 9 as its high point. Morris collects the thirteenth-highest-rising debut on the Top Album Sales chart this frame. The list is dominated by Even in Arcadia by metal act Sleep Token. Also new to the tally are just-released offerings from musicians like Kali Uchis, Forrest Frank, Blake Shelton, Arcade Fire, and Counting Crows.
