Between 1973 and 2005, National Advocates for Pregnant Women identified 413 cases in which a person was punished for allegedly harming the health of their fetus, including self-inducing an abortion. But in the last 15 years, the organization identified 1,254 cases - and that's almost certainly an undercount. The majority of cases involve low income women and women of color: According to NAPW's pre-2005 data, 71 percent of the women couldn't afford lawyers and, of the 368 women for whom information on race was available, 59 percent were women of color.

[C]onsider El Salvador, where abortion is completely banned. More than 140 people, mostly impoverished women living in rural regions, have been incarcerated for illegal abortions - many of whom insist they merely miscarried. In Poland, where a court last year imposed a country-wide, near-total ban on abortion, a new bill proposes requiring doctors to report all pregnancies and miscarriages to a registry controlled and monitored by the government, raising fears it will heighten scrutiny of and prosecutions over pregnancies that don't end in birth.

If you think that can't happen in the United States, consider this: In 2019, during a hearing as part of an investigation that threatened to close Missouri's lone abortion clinic, the head of the state's department of health testified the office had created a spreadsheet tracking Planned Parenthood abortion patients' menstrual periods using state medical records. The purpose: To investigate "failed" abortions - people who had gone in for an abortion but were still pregnant and not getting their period - in an attempt to prove that abortion complications are common (they aren't). And since the leaked Supreme Court draft, Louisiana has taken the lead in saying what's coming next, via a bill saying people who get abortions can be charged with homicide.

"There's no medical way to tell the difference between a miscarriage and a medication abortion. And so the difference between whether someone gets reported isn't anything medical," says Rafa Kidvai, who directs the legal defense fund at the reproductive justice group If/When/How. "And that's obviously about race, about Blackness, about indigeneity, or anyone that feels suspicious."

After taking meth, which was found in the brain and liver of the fetus. Great example. /s

And now for the rest of the story - which anyone could have read if they bothered to hit the link:

Still, prosecutors were never able to prove that the drug had ended the pregnancy. In fact, the medical examiner testified at Poolaw's trial that he had noticed another compelling possible cause: congenital abnormalities in the developing fetus.

In January, the Oklahoma Court of Appeals dismissed manslaughter charges lodged against a woman in a similar situation to Poolaw, finding that the prosecutor could not establish that the mother's methamphetamine use was a substantial factor in her pregnancy loss - however, Comanche County has appealed. Poolaw must make a decision about whether she wants to appeal her case to the same court. If she does, and the court orders another trial, she risks being reconvicted and resentenced, potentially facing the maximum manslaughter sentence: life in prison.

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And I guess the words "never able to prove" went right over your pointy head. If something can't be definitively proven than how can a person be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?

Stop arguing with me. You have the credibility of a zero. Think for a second: If 25% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, then how can anyone determine if the mother had criminal intent? No one has any idea how many different things can trigger miscarriages.

And lastly, the wording of the ME indicates that he wasn't relating the deformities to the meth. Again, the ME did not allege what you're alleging and you're not a forensic examiner and you've not seen any toxicology results. Stay in your lane - which happens to be the ditch you dig with your obstinance and illogic.

Unreal. A miscarriage is not an abortion. People know what a miscarriage is.