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Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs

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Pregnancy Justice report: 210 cases of pregnancy-related prosecutions in a single year .

Advocacy group: In first year after Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, at least 22 women faced criminal prosecution after miscarriages, stillbirths, or the death of babies born prematurely.

Nearly all of the cases involved alleged abortions, attempted abortions, or exploring the possibility of an abortion.

In 15 cases, prosecutors only have to show that a woman’s conduct supposedly posed some risk to her pregnancy.

Almost 60 percent of cases involved what Bach calls the “hospital-to-prison pipeline” The Dobbs ruling “emboldened state legislatures, judges, anti-abortion activists, and prosecutors to develop ever more aggressive strategies’.

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