The case comes as women across the US have been increasingly subjected to surveillance, arrest and charges for abortions, stillbirths and other actions that police claimed "endangered" their fetuses, with routine healthcare decisions and pregnancy outcomes treated as crimes...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
She lost her child in a home birth. Prosecutors charged her with murder
The San Diego district attorney is moving forward with charges of murder "with malice" and child endangerment and has cited her decision to have an "unattended delivery" as well as her alleged drug use. Prosecutors have continued to pursue the case despite the county medical examiner saying the manner of death was an "accident"; medical experts testifying that the state's cause-of-death claims were not backed by scientific evidence; and the passage of a new California law explicitly prohibiting the criminalization of pregnancy loss. If convicted, Carpenter could face a life sentence. …
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