Terrifying precedent: Georgia Woman Arrested for How She Disposed of Miscarriage

https://jessica.substack.com/p/georgia-woman-arrested-for-how-she

"...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..."