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A new true-crime podcast is delving into crimes of the past and present in relation to sex, procreation, pregnancy, birth, and all things human reproduction. The latest episode of Conceiving Crime centers on a shocking story out of Illinois in 2019. In September of that year, Mark was at his home in Michigan when he received a phone call from his wife, who asked him to drive out to see her sister, whose husband had died just a few days earlier. She needed help cleaning out their home, including the garage. He and his wife had been married for 35...

Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas had two very different opinions when it came to a ruling on Tuesday that effectively upheld an Indiana law on disposal of fetal remains. The court’s ruling allowed Indiana to enforce a requirement that abortion clinics either bury or cremate fetal remains following an abortion. The justices said in an unsigned opinion that the case does not involve limits on abortion rights. Ginsburg was one of two liberal-leaning justices who dissented. Ginsburg said in a short solo opinion that she believes the issue does impact a woman's right to have an...

An abortionist who failed to report several cases of statutory rape to authorities as required by law may get off without a criminal record, paying a modest fee and serving a minimal amount of community service. Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer failed to report an abortion he performed on a 13-year-old girl in South Bend, Indiana, in 2013. Having sex with a minor 13 or younger in the state of Indiana is prosecuted as a felony, and abortionists must report performing abortions on young girls to the Department of Child Services and the Indiana State Department of Health within three days....