Post-Roe, Pregnant Women Face Risk of Criminal Prosecution....

In the first year after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs, which overturned the constitutional right to privacy for an abortion found in Roe v. Wade, over 200 criminal cases were brought against women related to their pregnancies. Women are being accused of murder, child abuse, neglect, engangerment, criminal homicide, drug-related charges, and even abuse of a corpse. In the past 50 year, there have been roughly 2,000 similar cases. But, 200 in one year is a record. Most of the cases brough have been related to substance abuse during pregnancy. Over 75% of the women charged were low-income and the prosecutors are not required to prove any damage to the fetus - just the act of the woman was enough to be found criminally liable. One woman in the article was charged with murder three months after a miscarriage. Read more here:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/health/criminal-charges-during-pregnancy-increase?cid=ios_app