4 posts tagged ‘women's health’
Jury Decides Not to Prosecute Black Woman in Ohio for Having a Miscarriage
Jezebel,
A grand jury in Trumbull County, Ohio, has decided not to charge Brittany Watts with a felony abuse of a corpse charge for having a miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy, county prosecutors announced on Thursday. The decision comes after Watts’ case sparked national outrage that a Black woman was being criminalized… Read more...
Planned Parenthood Employees Say They’re ‘Left to Clean Up the Mess’ After Org's Response to Gaza Crisis
On December 5, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released a statement that began by condemning reports of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israelis. But it didn’t mention the nearly 20,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in two months until the third paragraph. The statement quickly… Read more...
Oklahoma Wants to Prosecute Woman Who Took Edibles Because Her Fetus Didn’t Have Medical Marijuana Card
On Thursday, Pregnancy Justice filed a lawsuit asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stop prosecutors from charging pregnant people in the state with felony child neglect for using medical marijuana—a legal medication—during pregnancy. Per reporting from The Frontier, since 2018—when the state voted to legalize medical… Read more...
Alabama Woman with two uteruses set to give birth to twins
Boing Boing,
Only one in a million women born with two uteri is ever pregnant at the same time in both. Kelsey Hatcher of Alabama is one such person. The 32-year-old mother-to-be is 34 weeks pregnant and will give birth to twin girls next month, reports The Washington Post. — Read the rest