He argued both that the law had the impermissible effect of criminalizing most second trimester abortions, and that a law aimed explicitly only at the dilation and extraction procedure would be unconstitutional as well.
Practical limitations on the interpretation of such broad language are inevitable, however, because the principle, if applied fully, would criminalize most legislative and executive compromises.
Because for as long as sex work is criminalized, most meaningful efforts to change things for the better technically have to be made outside of the law.
In the Asian countries, where drug use is highly criminalized, most study subjects were recruited from the large compulsory long-term rehabilitation programs.
Homosexuality has been criminalized for most of the last century there, and head of state Ramzan Kadyrov has imposed harsh Islamic religious law, endorsing family "honor killings" of women, for example.
And perhaps worst of all, they've criminalized that most universal of childhood experiences: a crush.
Various sexual acts widely considered immoral were long criminalized, but most all of these criminal sanctions have been lifted.
It is heavily criminalized in most regions of the world.
The suggestions to criminalize the most serious cases are part of a broader set of proposals intended to strengthen laws on banking, insurance and securities trading, where fines are considered too low, or penalties too weak, to deter wrongdoing.
For the journalists, the new law's most controversial clause is one that criminalizes the promotion of "terrorism offences in general", potentially subjecting reporters to prosecution for covering or quoting alleged terrorists and their activities.
