Nearly 80 Percent of All Pregnancy-Related Arrests Occur in 5 Southern States

A new report released by Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit that defends pregnant people from criminalization, has found that nearly 1,400 people in the U.S. were arrested for actions related to their pregnancies from January 2006 through June 2022. “The findings in this report are a call to action, and anyone working to achieve greater bodily autonomy ought to heed that call,” Monica Raye Simpson…

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