A new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health studied how each state in the U.S. is responding to the needs of new and expecting mothers. The results are, put bluntly, dismal – as the report notes, the…
Something terrible is happening in South Carolina. So-called “fetal personhood” laws are facilitating the criminalization of pregnant people for “child neglect,” and “endangerment.” This legal fiction – that pregnant people can neglect or endanger a child who has yet to…
According to a recent report by Pregnancy Justice, there were 1,396 cases of pregnancy criminalization in the United States between January 2006 and June 2022. Pregnancy criminalization is defined as instances where someone is “arrested for reasons related to their…
May 23, 2023, via the White House website Dear President Biden, Thank you again for affirming in your June 1, 2021 proclamation on LGBTQ Pride Month that LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. As Pride Month 2023 approaches, I am writing…
