{"id":3679,"date":"2025-10-05T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:50:04","slug":"us-prosecutors-keep-charging-women-with-pregnancy-related-crimes-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/us-prosecutors-keep-charging-women-with-pregnancy-related-crimes-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"US prosecutors keep charging women with &#8216;pregnancy-related crimes&#8217; &#8211; opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is most worrying about this post-Roe trend of \u201cpregnancy-related crimes\u201d, however, is that the laws used in most of these prosecutions are meant to protect children rather than fetuses. What we are seeing here is a growing acceptance of the idea of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/2025\/03\/04\/legal-consequences-of-the-fetal-personhood-movement\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">fetal personhood<\/a>\u201d, which grants fetuses and embryos the full rights of a legal person. According to Pregnancy Justice, at least 24 states include language around \u201cfetal rights\u201d in laws regulating or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pregnancyjusticeus.org\/legal-landscape\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">prohibiting abortion care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/oct\/04\/week-in-patriarchy-pregnancy-crimes\">The Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is most worrying about this post-Roe trend of \u201cpregnancy-related crimes\u201d, however, is that the laws used in most of these prosecutions are meant to protect children rather than fetuses. What we are seeing here is a growing acceptance of the idea of \u201cfetal personhood\u201d, which grants fetuses and embryos the full rights of a &#8230; <a title=\"US prosecutors keep charging women with &#8216;pregnancy-related crimes&#8217; &#8211; opinion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/us-prosecutors-keep-charging-women-with-pregnancy-related-crimes-opinion\/\" aria-label=\"More on US prosecutors keep charging women with &#8216;pregnancy-related crimes&#8217; &#8211; opinion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,337,104,703,237],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-criminalizing-pregnancy-outcomes","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-policing-pregnancy","tag-pregnancy-criminalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}