Prosecuting Pregnant Women is on the Rise


I cannot help but recall the first time on this blog I pointed out that the inevitable result of defining one cell as a "human being" would result in women becoming criminals. The reply was "Anti abortion has always considered women the victims when abortions are prosecuted. This will not change." This was ridiculous then and not true now. This past year many women were charged with crimes over miscarriages and abortions. Forced Birth judges may well continue prosecuting women even if voters make abortion legal in more states. Women have become the criminals, not the victims.

There is an effort, almost a desperate effort, to allow women to escape prosecution for miscarriages and abortions. This is to give women in Forced Birth states the money and information to escape the state they live in to get abortions. Money if being collected to pay for gas, airplane tickets and whatever is needed so they can escape. 

This effort of paying women to escape is working well except for poor women of color. Records show poor women of color are the group most likely to be charged with murder for getting or seeking an abortion. The religious right was for slavery and segregation and now it has found a new way to persecute nonwhite people.

One can imagine the cheer that went up among those who hate nonwhite women when Forced Birth states passed their no abortion laws. It opened the door for what this group has wanted all along, harass and jail women of color.

The most popular stories telling the truth of Forced Birth cruelty have been women who have died from Forced Birth laws. What needs more exposure are the low income women of color being prosecuted by law enforcement for needing to terminate pregnancies.

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