A new report finds abortion restrictions have led to increased surveillance and criminalization of pregnant people.
, the life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Afterward, they charged the woman with “abuse” of her “unborn child,” according to documents obtained by Pregnancy Justice.from the nonprofit organization showed that more and more pregnant people were being charged in the decades leading up to.
“What want to do is write the idea that a fetus is a person into as many laws and as many contexts as possible to eventually say to the ultra-conservative Supreme Court, ‘Isn’t it weird that a fetus isn’t a person in this other context?’” Ziegler toldin a phone interview. “Each prosecution, in a way, is a sort of break in the wall of building toward that national ban.”
“What we do in these cases is activate a sense of disgust that a person who is pregnant is doing something that threatens the fetus, and we skip over the question of whether, in fact, the fetus has been harmed by it,” said Michelle Oberman, a law professor at Santa Clara University who studies the impact of abortion regulations.
Ultimately, in many of these cases referring pregnant people to the criminal justice system instead of the health care system harms health outcomes. The states in this study with the highest number of prosecutions also have some of the worst maternal and infant mortality statistics, whichin the ‘80s, when it was thought that in utero exposure to crack cocaine would lead to a generation of “crack babies.
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