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Project Director Blake Rocap explains how prosecutors use the concept of fetal personhood to elevate assault charges to capital murder in a new criminal case in Texas.

Project Director Blake Rocap explains how pregnancy criminalization leads to surveilling pregnant people, as police use license plate data to locate a woman who had an abortion.

The 2025 Texas Legislature regular session has ended, and access to abortion remains largely unchanged as several anti-abortion bills fail, explains Blake Rocap, Project Director.

Project Director Blake Rocap sheds light on the occurrence of abandoned newborns in Texas.

Read a recap of Professor Robyn Powell's visit to the Rapoport Center to talk about reproductive criminalization through a disability justice lens.

One of the Project’s consulting faculty members, Jennifer Laurin, discusses the impact of Starr County abortion lawsuit.

In the year after Dobbs, there were at least 210 prosecutions related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth nationwide – the highest number of criminal cases documented in a single year.

Sissy Farenthold Scholar in Reproductive Justice ('23-'24) Gwynn Marotta is quoted in support of a reproductive health grant that is now under attack. 

Project Director Blake Rocap discusses Lizelle Gonzalez's lawsuit against Starr County for illegally arresting and indicting her in 2022 for a self-managed abortion.

It has been an eventful and productive year since the Project’s inaugural CLE event in May 2023. We’re delighted to share with you just a glimpse of the work we’ve done.