#pregnancy-criminalization

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US politics
fromThe Nation
1 day ago

Keeping the Police Out of Pregnancy Care

Pregnant people are increasingly prosecuted for miscarriages, stillbirths, and pregnancy-related emergencies using unrelated criminal statutes, often prompted by healthcare providers reporting them.
fromJezebel
2 months ago

More and More Pregnant People Are Facing Pregnancy Criminalization

When a 24-year-old woman in Tifton, Georgia, was found outside of her apartment unconscious and bleeding in March, she was arrested by police. She'd had a miscarriage, and after cops received an anonymous tip, they recovered some fetal remains in a dumpster nearby. And so the Tift County Sheriff's Office jailed her for "concealing the death of another person" and "abandonment of a dead body."
Social justice
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

US prosecutors keep charging women with pregnancy-related crimes' | Arwa Mahdawi

Post-Roe prosecutions increasingly criminalize pregnancy, disproportionately targeting low-income women, promoting fetal personhood and worsening maternal and infant health outcomes.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

More than 400 people faced pregnancy-related criminal charges in 16 US states in the two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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