{"id":328131,"date":"2025-03-20T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328131"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:14:14","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-attorney-wi-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-attorney-wi-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood attorney running for WI Supreme Court under fire for past ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former attorney for Planned Parenthood is currently running<\/a> for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and a sentence she gave to a child rapist is currently causing backlash after coming to light.<\/p>\n

Susan Crawford previously served as an attorney with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project, and aided in blocking the 2011 Wisconsin law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion facility. However, Crawford has said she would not recuse herself from any abortion-related cases, saying, \u201cThe law does not require judges to automatically recuse just because they have done some kind of legal work in the past as a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is currently under fire<\/a> for a past case in which she reportedly gave a light sentence to an adult man who repeatedly raped and molested a child beginning at the age of five.<\/p>\n

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Susan Crawford defending her weak sentence of Curtis O\u2019Brien and calling it a \u201csuccessful\u201d sentence. He raped a 5 year old girl repeatedly and is already out. \u201cI don\u2019t regret that sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

He got four years. The state wanted 10. He could have gotten 60. By saying she applied\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/EnaMp2zrVH<\/a><\/p>\n

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