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1 week agoMore and More Pregnant People Are Facing Pregnancy Criminalization
When a 24-year-old woman in Tifton, Georgia, was found outside of her apartment unconscious and bleeding in March, she was arrested by police. She'd had a miscarriage, and after cops received an anonymous tip, they recovered some fetal remains in a dumpster nearby. And so the Tift County Sheriff's Office jailed her for "concealing the death of another person" and "abandonment of a dead body."
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