Other documented charges against pregnant women include criminal homicide and drug-related charges, along with one charge related to a portion of a criminal abortion statute that has since been repealed and one charge of abuse of a corpse.
Certain groups have been advocating for fetal personhood for decades, she said.
So instead, fetal personhood was indirectly written into other areas of law, with a particular focus on advocating for prosecutions of pregnant women.
“The goal was not just to have these individual people go to prison, it was meant to set a precedent about what fetal rights look like,” she said.
Marsh’s case is a “prime example of how pregnancy loss can become a criminal investigation very quickly,” Dana Sussman, senior vice president of Pregnancy Justice, told KFF.
Persons:
Dobbs, Roe, Wade, ”, Mary Ruth Ziegler, Ziegler, “, ” Ziegler, Tom Parker, Him, Amari Marsh, ” Dana Sussman, KFF, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Lourdes A, Rivera
Organizations:
CNN, University of California Davis School of Law, Pregnancy, South Carolina State University, CNN Health, Dobbs America
Locations:
United States, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina