In 2015, prosecutors in Indiana arrested a woman on infanticide charges after she self-induced an abortion. Their evidence included her text messages with a friend about obtaining drugs to cause an abortion.
In 2017, prosecutors in Mississippi accessed a woman’s browser search history — she had been looking for the words abortion pill — to charge her with murder for “killing her infant child.”
In January, prosecutors in Texas arrested a woman after she went to a hospital for complications from a self-induced abortion. The hospital reported her to authorities.