“The Dobbs ruling is further accelerating an existing crisis, putting pregnant people at even greater risk of arrest, prosecution, and conviction.”
The Women’s Media Center’s research and reports shed a light on the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media.
“Pregnancy Justice’s report shows that pregnant people are increasingly targeted for criminalization in ways that do not exist for people who are not pregnant, with dire consequences for themselves and their families,” said Lourdes A. Rivera, president of Pregnancy Justice. The Pregnancy Justice research found that more than nine in 10 of the instances in which women were criminalized involved allegations of substance use. The three most common substances associated with pregnancy criminalization were methamphetamine, cannabis, and cocaine, but one-quarter of cases involved alleged use of legal substances, including prescription opiates, nicotine, and alcohol. Two in three cases involved a live birth with no mention of negative health outcomes for the infant.
The report showed that poor white women were the most criminalized population, but poor Black women were disproportionately criminalized. Seventy-nine percent of those charged were white women and 18.2% of arrests were of Black pregnant women, who were 13% of the population.
Of the 1,394 cases of pregnancy criminalization, only 1.4% — 16 cases — involved people attempting to end a pregnancy, but the report warns this may change in light of the reversal of
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