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Perhaps most often, anti-abortion activists insisted that women were menaced not by criminal laws but by abortion itself, which they described as a source of mental illness and physical peril.

The lawyer said that prior to the shooting, Pounds “tailgated and aggressively menaced” the Cadillac from his dark sedan with blacked-out window tinting.

The eastern town of Chasiv Yar — more than 160 miles to the southeast of Friday’s fighting and a key bulwark against a Russian push deeper into the Donbas industrial region — has been menaced for weeks.

In the war’s heady early months, after Russian forces menaced Kyiv but then were forced to pull back, people flocked to the square to take selfies, and children played tag between the hulking wrecks.

Riddle of Fire Rated PG-13 for menaced kids and mumbled dialogue.