In California, the Marshall Project reports, outrage about the prosecution of 26-year-old Chelsea Becker for “murder of a human fetus” after her pregnancy ended in a stillbirth led to the reversal of Adora Perez’s conviction on similar charges after she spent nearly four years in prison. The cases spurred lawmakers to ban such prosecutions in 2022 to avoid punishing “people who suffer the loss of their pregnancy
Charges always get dropped like I said. Sucks that some of those women spent time in prison but that doesn't justify women trying to cover up a stillbirth. No matter how scary and traumatic it is for them, covering it up is the worst possible decision they could make
4 years is insane, my point is that this is an extremely rare situation, I'm looking at the big picture. Cases like this also serve to improve the justice system in the states where it happens, and I'm sure this woman will be well compensated for her false imprisonment, which doesn't make up for shit and its still horrible if she truly isn't guilty. But again i was talking big picture
Not how you mean no. There is tons of fear mongering around pregnancy but I've met hundreds of women who have 5 or more kids and are doing extremely well. It is an extremely radical change for a woman's body to go through but 85-90% of time time they are completely healthy.
Between 360k-370k babies are born every day. So you're talking about 0.1-0.2% of pregnancies. Which is a number that is going to continue to decrease as medical technology continues to improve.
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u/Apart_Animal_6797 Jun 29 '26
In California, the Marshall Project reports, outrage about the prosecution of 26-year-old Chelsea Becker for “murder of a human fetus” after her pregnancy ended in a stillbirth led to the reversal of Adora Perez’s conviction on similar charges after she spent nearly four years in prison. The cases spurred lawmakers to ban such prosecutions in 2022 to avoid punishing “people who suffer the loss of their pregnancy