"Michele Goodwin, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of 'Policing The Womb,' said the case follows a pattern of women’s pregnancies being criminalized against them. She said those efforts have long overwhelmingly targeted Black and brown women.
Even before Roe was overturned, studies show that Black women who visited hospitals for prenatal care were 10 times more likely than white women to have child protective services and law enforcement called on them, even when their cases were similar, she said.
'Post-Dobbs, what we see is kind of a wild, wild West,' said Goodwin. 'You see this kind of muscle-flexing by district attorneys and prosecutors wanting to show that they are going to be vigilant, they’re going to take down women who violate the ethos coming out of the state’s legislature.'”
~ Julie Carr Smyth
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-woman-miscarriage-charged_n_657dd198e4b0e142c0bddc78
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