Episode 206: Pink Crime

In the wake of recent SCOTUS decisions like Dobbs and Skrmetti, the bodies and actions of queer people, mothers, and pregnant people have been increasingly criminalized. Lindsay Langholz is joined by Valena Beety to discuss her new book, Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, and how women and queer people are being punished for crimes that never occurred at all.

Host: Lindsay Langholz, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Valena Beety, Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Link: Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity, by Valena Beety (30% off code: TNP30)

Link: Tip that saw Pete Buttigieg separated from his children was not vetted and informant may have been ‘mentally unstable’, by Jasmine Fernández

Link: Post-Dobbs Pregnancy Criminal Cases, Pregnancy Justice