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Criminal

Patience

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

One Saturday morning in 2018, the police showed up at Patience Rousseau’s door, and started asking her questions about something she'd posted on Facebook after she'd had a miscarriage. Caroline Kitchener’s article for The Washington Post is “She said she had a miscarriage — then got arrested under an abortion law.” Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode contains descriptions of miscarriage.

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Please use discretion.

1:19.7

Patients, here's a knock at the door.

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She goes to open it, and there are a bunch of sheriff's deputies and police officers standing at the door.

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Several of them are wearing sort of full, like, SWAT-looking gear.

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