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EPISODE · Aug 11, 2026 · 54 MIN

"Pink Crime": Criminalizing Motherhood, Pregnancy, Abortion and Queer Identity w/ Pro. Valena Beety (G&R 519)

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🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.In our latest, we talk with Prof. Valena Beety, Professor of Law at Indiana University, about her new book "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity." We discuss how the state has been criminalizing motherhood, pregnancy, abortion and queer identity. Guest bio//Valena Beety (@innocenceprof) is a law professor, innocence litigator, and former federal prosecutor who has exonerated the wrongfully convicted, secured presidential clemency, and produced scholarship cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Her work centers the women and queer people most targeted in the criminal legal system.Professor Beety is the Robert McKinney Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Board Member of the Indiana Innocence Project. She founded the West Virginia Innocence Project at West Virginia University College of Law and was Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her most recent book is "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity."------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Professor Beety's Website: https://valenabeetyjd.com🔖 Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity(https://bit.ly/4wECeMx) (use the code TNP30 for a 30% discount)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

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