Pregnancy Is Being Criminalized Like Never Before

A disturbing study by Pregnancy Justice found that pregnant women “are under increased surveillance and are getting arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated for any actions that have a perceived risk of harm to the pregnancy.” In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, at least 210 pregnant women have faced such criminal charges. That’s “the highest number of pregnancy-related prosecutions documented in a single year.”

This is not coincidental. The majority of cases came from Alabama...