The Cut covers pregnancy criminalization with the case of one 24-year-old woman in Georgia as a recent example. In addition to imbuing fetuses with legal rights, what these cases boil down to in practice is that conduct that otherwise would not be prosecuted — such as drug use or throwing body waste in the trash — is being criminalized solely because someone is pregnant (paywall):
https://www.thecut.com/article/why-a-georgia-womans-arrest-after-miscarriage-is-disturbing.html
The Cut covers pregnancy criminalization with the case of one 24-year-old woman in Georgia as a recent example. In addition to imbuing fetuses with legal rights, what these cases boil down to in practice is that conduct that otherwise would not be prosecuted — such as drug use or throwing body waste in the trash — is being criminalized solely because someone is pregnant (paywall)
The Cut covers pregnancy criminalization with the case of one 24-year-old woman in Georgia as a recent example. In addition to imbuing fetuses with legal rights, what these cases boil down to in practice is that conduct that otherwise would not be prosecuted — such as drug use or throwing body waste in the trash — is being criminalized solely because someone is pregnant (paywall):
https://www.thecut.com/article/why-a-georgia-womans-arrest-after-miscarriage-is-disturbing.html