NEW BOSTON, Texas—A Texas woman was convicted of capital murder Monday for killing a pregnant woman to take her unborn baby. A Bowie County jury in northeast Texas deliberated about an hour before finding Taylor Rene Parker, 29, guilty of the October 2020 murder of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and the abduction of the daughter…

A Utah court on Monday granted a temporary restraining order against the state’s trigger law that made most abortions in the state at any point in pregnancy a crime after last week’s Supreme Court ruling. Planned Parenthood of Utah filed the lawsuit directed at Utah Senate Bill 174 claiming the legislation violated Utah’s constitution. Third…

A Family Court judge in Michigan late last month refused a mother’s request for custody of five to ten frozen embryos on ice at an in-vitro fertilization facility. The embryos were produced through in vitro, or outside the body, fertilization in 2015 and then frozen. The mother, Gloria Karungi, and her former boyfriend, Ronald Ejalu,…