This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. […]
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A Miscarriage, a Grand Jury, and the Policing of Black Women’s Bodies
The case of a Black woman in Ohio who’s been charged after a miscarriage confirms reproductive activists’ fears in a post-Roe era: that women’s pregnancies, especially Black women, would be criminalized. Brittany Watts miscarried 22 weeks into her pregnancy in September. The 33-year-old woman went to her doctor, who told her she would miscarry — and […]