Descargar Pregnancy as a Crime: A Preliminary Report on the First Year After Dobbs y explorar los hallazgos.

This report presents the preliminary findings of a research study seeking to document all charges of pregnancy criminalization in the country in the three years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This report covers the first year after dobbs, from June 24, 2022 to June 23, 2023.

In the first year after dobbs, at least 210 people faced criminal charges for conduct associated with their pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth. In one sense, this is nothing new. Pregnancy Justice, along with other reporters and researchers, has documented over 1,800 cases of pregnancy-related charges between 1973 and the dobbs decision.

Yet the 210 prosecutions initiated in this one-year period represent a high-water mark — the largest single-year number since researchers began tracking these cases. Even a number as high as 210 prosecutions represents an undercount of cases. In fact, the research team continues to uncover additional cases initiated during this period and will add them to the dataset as part of a comprehensive three-year report published at the end of the study.

Resumen ejecutivo

Introducción

Pregnancy Criminalization & Fetal Personhood

Study Definition, Parameters & Methodology

Preliminary Findings

Emerging Threats

Recomendaciones

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Explore our prior report, El aumento de la criminalización del embarazo