An intimation of our future under the Taliban

There have been more than 1,700 cases between 1973 and 2020 in which women have been criminalized based on the spurious notion of “fetal personhood". That estimate, probably an undercount, includes a wide range of cases in which pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution based on some action or behavior that law enforcement claimed caused harm to the fetus.
Pregnant women have been criminalized for falling down stairs; giving birth at home; exposing a fetus to dangerous “fumes”; having HIV; not resting enough during the pregnancy; not getting to a hospital fast enough while in labor; being the victim of a shooting; and self-inducing an abortion. America accounts for 4.25% of the global population, but imprisons nearly 1/3 of the world's female prisoners. Only 18% of those were for violent offenses. You can bloody well guess what's going to happen once Roe is repealed in a few weeks.

She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common

 

Aid Access is an international organization run by a Dutch doctor, Rebecca Gomperts, that is committed to keeping abortion accessible even in places where it is illegal. Aid Access often connects Americans with European doctors, and people can order pills even if they are not pregnant, to have them on hand if they want them later.

For a safe abortion or miscarriage treatment

 

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