Ariel Castro
Lawyers, Courts Go Easy on Gender-Based Crimes
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The recent murder of Amy Lord in Massachusetts and Ariel Castro’s sexual enslavement of three young women in Ohio expose serious lapses in the way crimes targeting women are handled.
Ariel Castro
Morning-After Pill Gets OK; FGM Fatality in Egypt
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The Obama administration will now allow minors to obtain emergency contraceptive without restrictions. But a 13-year-old Egyptian teen has died while undergoing female genital mutilation.
Amanda Berry
Cleveland Crimes Should Be Prosecuted on Civil Rights
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When an elected district attorney in Ohio can’t see that Ariel Castro’s gender-based crimes are civil rights violations, it’s hard to hope that our legal system will do much to prevent such horrifying crimes from continuing.