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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week 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
1 week 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.
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

You Might Be Shocked Which State Is Prosecuting a Stillbirth as a Murder

Many Americans assume that the criminalization of pregnancy is limited to red states with aggressive anti-abortion prosecutors and draconian bans on reproductive health care. But it isn't. In reality, prosecutors in blue states have also deployed the concept of "fetal personhood" to punish women for their pregnancy outcomes. When women experience a miscarriage or stillbirth, they are vulnerable to investigation and arrest if the state suspects they had an unlawful hand in their pregnancy loss.
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fromJezebel
3 months ago
US politics

At Adriana Smith's Funeral, Democratic Lawmaker Calls Out 'Restrictive Fetal Personhood Regimes'

fromThe Nation
5 months ago
Left-wing politics

Overturning "Roe" Wasn't the End Goal: Mary Ziegler on the "New Civil War"

The anti-abortion movement aims for personhood for embryos, impacting abortion, IVF, and contraception.
fromTruthout
5 months ago
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Abortion Bans Criminalize People - and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant

Criminalization of pregnancy outcomes highlights dangers of strict abortion laws.
fromJezebel
3 months ago
US politics

At Adriana Smith's Funeral, Democratic Lawmaker Calls Out 'Restrictive Fetal Personhood Regimes'

Parenting
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Fetus of brain dead Georgia woman kept alive due to abortion ban is growing, says family

Georgia's law on fetal personhood results in a brain-dead woman being kept on life support to carry her pregnancy.
Left-wing politics
fromThe Nation
5 months ago

Overturning "Roe" Wasn't the End Goal: Mary Ziegler on the "New Civil War"

The anti-abortion movement aims for personhood for embryos, impacting abortion, IVF, and contraception.
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Parenting
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

An Extraordinary Compromise of Medical Ethics

The case of Adriana Smith raises alarming ethical questions about the treatment of brain-dead patients in light of Georgia's LIFE Act.
US politics
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 months ago

Why Granting Fetuses and Embryos the Same Rights as People Could Threaten IVF

President Trump aims to expand IVF access while complicating fetal personhood debates, potentially impacting various reproductive health facets.
Social justice
fromThe New Yorker
5 months ago

The Rise of the Fetal-Personhood Claim in the Anti-Abortion Movement

Incarcerated people are facing neglect and starvation, highlighting a significant civil rights crisis tied to private prison companies and government oversight.
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