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Alabama Jails Woman for Endangering Her Fetus. She Wasn't Pregnant.

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Reason · Nov 22, 2022

Pregnant women held in Alabama jail for months to ‘protect foetuses’ after drug arrests

Alabama law says that women suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth who are found to have used drugs during pregnancy can be sent to prison for 99 years

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022

What happens when women get illegal abortions in post-roe America

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that protected the constitutional right to an abortion, it won’t just be harder for women to get the procedure — states have also been lying in wait with tough penalties for anyone that will provide…

Tribune News Service · Jun 25, 2022