Pregnancy Criminalization in the US Is an “Avoidable Human Rights Crisis”
A new report from legal reproductive justice group If/When/How found that between 2000 and 2020, 61 people, including seven minors, were criminally investigated or arrested for allegedly ending their own pregnancies or helping someone else to do so. “The United States is in the midst of a completely avoidable human rights crisis,” the report says. During the period of this research...