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...element of an
aggravated sex crime. Instead, those out-of-state statutes merely say that
pregnancy, along with other specified outcomes, can support a conviction for
an elevated version of the underlying crime or crimes. See, e.g., N.M. Stat. Ann.
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30-9-10 (D) (defining “personal injury” to mean “bodily injury to a lesser
degree than great bodily harm” that “includes, but is not limited to,
disfigurement, mental anguish, chronic or recurrent pain, pregnancy or
disease or injury to...
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Some state legislatures have definitively answered that
question by making the policy judgment to enact statutes that
specifically include “pregnancy” in a definition of “injury” or “bodily
harm.” See, e.g., N.M. Stat. Ann. §
30-9-10 (D) (“‘[P]ersonal injury’
means bodily injury to a lesser degree than great bodily harm and
includes, but is not limited to, disfigurement, mental anguish,
chronic or recurrent pain, pregnancy or disease or injury to a sexual
or reproductive organ”); see also Del....