My colleagues on the NYT editorial board and I have a new series out on fetal personhood — how that notion has been propagated by the anti-abortion movement, lawmakers, and prosecutors, and how it's resulted in women losing rights in a number of ways. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How women grieving after a lost pregnancy or a newborn’s accidental death are being charged with crimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How bad science and the media — including The New York Times — helped spread a moral panic about “crack babies” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How pregnant women and mothers with a history of drug use face a litany of assaults on their liberties — when what they really need is access to health care nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How a brain-dead woman in Texas was kept on life support for 62 days to gestate her (as it turns out, not viable) fetus. Truly a Handmaid’s Tale horror nytimes.com/interactive/20…
A heartbreaking video — the first-person story of a woman who was treated like a murderer after having a stillbirth nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Think this only happens in red states? Check out the law in New York, which has forced women experiencing incredibly tragic circumstances to fly across the country to get an abortion nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Here’s the playbook for many of the laws that get used to prosecute these women nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Given the current Supreme Court makeup, this situation is almost certain to get worse, with more women being punished for their pregnancy outcomes. So watch out for this stuff come 2019 and beyond. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
There are several takeaways from all this. A big one is that, to paraphrase @LynnPaltrow, we've taken what are fundamentally health issues and made them into criminal law issues.
