All posts tagged "Pregnant Women"

Republicans are behind a growing push to incarcerate pregnant women forcing them to give birth "like caged animals," an author tells Mother Jones in a new interview Wednesday.

Author Rebecca Rodriguez Carey’s new book, "Birth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prisons," reveals how pregnant women are a "fast-growing population" and often forced to give birth in shackles — even as leading medical groups denounce the practice, Mother Jones reports.

"Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people," according to Mother Jones. "And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks."...

A Wisconsin mother-to-be is challenging her state’s fetal protection law after she was arrested following a prenatal visit where she admitted taking a drug used to treat painkiller dependency.

Last month, when the Arizona Senate passed SB1359, the "wrongful birth" bill, I wrote this: