Even before the Court’s rejection of Roe, many pregnant Americans were finding themselves the targets of investigations, prosecutions and other coercive actions. Post-Dobbs, advocates say it's going to get even worse.
Women have even been arrested after a pregnancy loss in which prosecutors found they had searched under ‘abortion pill’ in their browsing history.
“People have said to me, ‘I really want children. And I don’t feel like I can have children in this climate. I can’t bring a child into this,’” Dr. Julie Bindeman, a Maryland-based psychologist who specializes in pregnancy loss, told MindSite News.Policing pregnancy loss can compound the agonizing grief and desolation of losing a baby, Bindeman said. In Becker’s case, as in countless others, the young mother was devastated.
“Even with the counselors at the jail, I was afraid anything I might have said to them would be used against me in court,” Becker wrote. “So I suffered alone.” The doctors knew what the right thing to do was, but they couldn’t do it, Rosenstein noted; instead, they were forced to make their patients suffer. After patients were sent home, Rosenstein said, their health was clearly endangered.
She also is concerned that women who are having a miscarriage might be afraid to seek medical care out of fear that police might investigate them because they’d had a drink or smoked a cigarette. “That just doesn’t happen in any other realm,” she said. The chilling effect on care is also front and center in Indiana, a state that grabbed in 2012 for charging a pregnant woman, Bei Bei Shuai, with murder because of a stillbirth she suffered following her attempted suicide.
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