Some said that the practice of granting a pass to struggling students had never been criminalized before.
His lawyers contended that Parliament had never intended to criminalize oral sex with animals.
He finished a novel, a piece of speculative fiction about a society where drugs have never been criminalized, titled "Narcotica".
Uruguay, where personal use has never been criminalized, is moving toward some form of legalization and regulation of the sale of marijuana.
Within the African-American community, most, when asked, will say that they have never stopped being marginalized, criminalized and convicted for their skin color, beginning during slavery, and lasting into the economic and psychological era of slavery that we now call the new Jim Crow.
Some Latin American countries, it should be pointed out, never criminalized drug possession in the first place.
In 1921, Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, had opposed a bill that would have criminalized lesbianism on the grounds that "of every thousand women ... 999 have never even heard a whisper of these practices".
It is a procedure Dr. Carhart has never performed and one he says he finds "distasteful," but he believed that the law was so broad that it could criminalize other types of abortions.
In the run-up to the 2004 election, Steinem voiced fierce criticism of the Bush administration, asserting, "There has never been an administration that has been more hostile to women's equality, to reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, and has acted on that hostility," adding, "If he is elected in 2004, abortion will be criminalized in this country".
"In all situations, we have to help people to be able to make the best choice for them... never criminalize one of their choices".
