Since the fall of Roe, Alabama and Oklahoma lead the nation in charging the most pregnant people with crimes against their fetuses, a study finds. Story: www.apr.org/news/2024-09...www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...
![Between June 24, 2022 and June 23, 2023, the first year after the Dobbs decision, at least 210 criminal cases were initiated charging pregnant people with crimes related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth. Documented prosecutions were initiated in twelve states-Alabama, California, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming. While prosecutions were brought in all of these states, six collectively account for the majority of the reported cases, with Alabama and Oklahoma accounting for the overwhelming majority. As shown in Figure A, cases documented in Alabama (104) represent nearly half of the documented prosecutions. Oklahoma represented nearly a third (68), followed by South Carolina (10), Ohio (7), Mississippi (6), and Texas
(6), which continue to bring a notable number of prosecutions.
[US map showing these results follows]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreihk46qnft35pgvm5fw67yjg645nse662wnmor7g3z2tl4axbdyjky@jpeg)
I made coconut sugar cinnamon buns. This is why I'm single. I randomly make sweet breads on Sundays.
I won't be devastated. I'm a woman who lived through 2016. I know why it will still be tied.
I saw some dude using a Jason hockey mask when I went on my evening walk tonight. That was fun.
I learned something today (from @wrenispinkle.bsky.socialwww.npr.org/sections/the...
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
Republicans are all projection. How the media hasn't groked onto that is a not very big mystery.
Exactly. Darth Cheney is a wretched human. And yet...
I am at the DMV. Do you think it would be rude to order a pizza for myself? I have a 2 hour wait.