Alabama's Explosive Post: A Pregnancy Scandal?

Dec 5, 2024 · as prosecutors in a dozen states charged women with crimes related to their pregnancies, the gulf south accounted for more than half of known cases, a recent study. Oct 17, 2022 · alabama’s chemical child endangerment law, along with the approach of the state’s courts, thus exemplifies how the growing doctrine of fetal personhood could allow legislators to. Dec 1, 2022 · etowah county officials are facing what appears to be the first lawsuit in the state alleging false imprisonment because a woman who was jailed for exposing her unborn child to. May 29, 2024 · in the past two decades, alabama has become the undisputed champion of arresting pregnant women for actions that wouldn’t be considered crimes if they weren’t. May 25, 2017 · unfortunately, thanks to alabama’s “chemical endangerment” law and other “fetal assault” laws like it, this attitude has also criminalized pregnancy.

Sep 23, 2015 · when the alabama department of public health randomly screened 500 pregnant women during routine prenatal visits at clinics around the state, 13 percent were positive for a controlled. Sep 24, 2024 · jackson women’s health organization ruling, at least 210 women across the country were charged with crimes related to their pregnancies, according to the report. Sep 25, 2024 · a new report says that nearly half of pregnant people who “faced criminal charges for conduct associated with pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth” after the u. s. Dec 5, 2024 · jackson women’s health organization, the supreme court decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion. For the period researchers examined, they. Sep 19, 2023 · a new report from the advocacy group pregnancy justice said arrests of women for allegedly harming their fetuses have accelerated since 2006. Almost half the arrests.