Women Prosecuted for Miscarriages at Record Levels Since Roe Overturned

'Traumatized': Women prosecuted for miscarriages at record levels

The day before Brittany Watts miscarried at home in Warren, Ohio, medical staff at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital told Watts that her nearly 21-week-old fetus had no chance of survival. And without treatment, neither would she.On that, Watts’ attorneys and those representing the hospital sh...

More miscarriages criminally investigated three years into post-Dobbs abortion bans

Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision ended federal abortion rights, women around the country have faced criminal charges after their pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, ranging from homicide to child abuse to abuse of corpse. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)Editor’s note: This report examines abortion access three years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the federal right to abortion. The …

Women prosecuted for miscarriages at record levels since Roe overturned

Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision ended federal abortion rights, women around the country have faced criminal charges after their pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, ranging from homicide to child abuse to abuse of corpse. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)Editor’s note: This report examines abortion access three years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the federal right to abortion. The …

Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs

(Mother Jones) – They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws. The Dobbs decision didn’t just unleash a raft of laws restricting and banning abortion—it also seems to have made authorities more skeptical of women whose pregnancies end prematurely for reasons that have nothing to do with abortion. “Most of the time, we don’t know why a pregnancy or infant demise happened,” says Wendy…