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A pregnant woman was shot in the stomach during a fight. The shooting caused her pregnancy to end. She has been indicted for manslaughter. This is how people-- especially women of color-- are already being punished & having their pregnancies criminalized. al.com/news/birmingha…
Learn more about the existence and enforcement of pregnancy criminalization laws that continue to punish pregnant people and strip them of their rights and dignity: bustle.com/p/the-rising-t…
Our partners at @NAPW have done a great job of tracking (and fighting) incidents of detaining and jailing pregnant people for things that occur related to their pregnancy-- aka the criminalization of pregnancy. Here's an article about one of their reports: theguardian.com/world/2013/jan…
Sign up for our Action Alerts (we promise not to fill your inbox) to keep up-to-date on what you can do to help fight the anti-abortion laws that make the criminalizing of pregnancy like this possible: cqrcengage.com/prochoice/app/…
In case you missed, an AL court recently recognized a fetus as a person with legal rights thanks to a personhood ballot initiative that passed in 2018. A guy is using it to sue @ALWomensCenter for providing his girlfriend the abortion care she wanted: salon.com/2019/03/06/ala…
But Alabama isn't the only state prosecuting people for miscarriages or pregnancy-related actions. Check out this series by the @nytopinion Editorial Board about how anti-abortion "personhood" & similar laws are already being used to jail & detain people: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
