[image: image.png] opening thoughts: from Jessica Valenti’s substack the Georgia police arrest a woman who had a miscarriage…this story is terrifying
Police arrested the young woman after she was found unconscious and bleeding near her apartment complex, charging her with “concealing the death of another person” and “abandonment of a dead body.” Why? Because after miscarrying, they say, she bagged up the fetal remains and put them in the trash.
*What exactly did they expect her to do?* Was she supposed to call the police after her miscarriage? A funeral home? At what point in pregnancy are women supposed to start reporting their pregnancy losses to law enforcement? It’s completely unhinged.
Naturally, this case follows the same pattern we’ve seen over and over again: A woman of color is criminalized for a pregnancy loss, charged under vague laws that seemingly have nothing to do with abortion, while local media frames her medical crisis as a criminal act.
Let’s be clear: The Tifton police themselves say <www.tifton.net/DocumentCenter/View/1661/PR-032125-UPDATE-Tifton-PD?bidId=> this was a miscarriage. They’re not claiming it was an illegal abortion—and even if it were, *Georgia* law doesn’t allow the prosecution of people who have abortions. So why is this a police matter? Why did they send the fetus to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Crime Lab for a *fucking autopsy*? rethink the week talkers: *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Felipe De La Hoz* iis an immigration-focused journalist , he teaches journalism at CUNY’s graduate school and NYU’s undergraduate program. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University.
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Police arrested the young woman after she was found unconscious and bleeding near her apartment complex, charging her with “concealing the death of another person” and “abandonment of a dead body.” Why? Because after miscarrying, they say, she bagged up the fetal remains and put them in the trash.
*What exactly did they expect her to do?* Was she supposed to call the police after her miscarriage? A funeral home? At what point in pregnancy are women supposed to start reporting their pregnancy losses to law enforcement? It’s completely unhinged.
Naturally, this case follows the same pattern we’ve seen over and over again: A woman of color is criminalized for a pregnancy loss, charged under vague laws that seemingly have nothing to do with abortion, while local media frames her medical crisis as a criminal act.
Let’s be clear: The Tifton police themselves say <www.tifton.net/DocumentCenter/View/1661/PR-032125-UPDATE-Tifton-PD?bidId=> this was a miscarriage. They’re not claiming it was an illegal abortion—and even if it were, *Georgia* law doesn’t allow the prosecution of people who have abortions. So why is this a police matter? Why did they send the fetus to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Crime Lab for a *fucking autopsy*? rethink the week talkers: *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Felipe De La Hoz* iis an immigration-focused journalist , he teaches journalism at CUNY’s graduate school and NYU’s undergraduate program. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University.
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Can the Democratic Party free itself from the Biden brand?
Bernie’s ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is Organizing, Too Capitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues.
Trump’s Simple Racism The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government.
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