This issue brief summarizes laws, currently in effect in 38 states, authorizing homicide charges for causing pregnancy loss (fetal homicide laws). It outlines the different forms they take and how the laws' language treat zygotes, embryos, and fetuses as human beings — a concept much more threatening to the health and wellbeing of people with the capacity for pregnancy now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned
For more than three decades, American prosecutors have been bringing criminal prosecutions against p...
During the past fifteen years, the term fetal abuse has been applied to physical and developmental h...
Half a century of state-level restrictions on abortion access might cause a casual observer to concl...
Under the common law, the intentional killing of a fetus by a party other than the pregnant woman di...
Fetal homicide laws criminalize killing a fetus largely to the same extent as killing any other huma...
Is the difference between abortion and fetal homicide the pregnant woman\u27s choice-or the provider...
Fetal homicide laws, though initially created to protect both mothers and fetuses, serve to wholly p...
The worst problems with the fetal homicide laws that have proliferated around the nation are quite d...
Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when she was shot during an argument. She survived, but the i...
Across the United States, and especially in communities that are highly policed and in places hostil...
25 p. ; An outstanding student paper selected as a Honors Paper.Does the state have an interest in e...
A discussion of the recent case in which a pregnant Indiana woman named Bei Bei Shuai was prosecuted...
This Comment argues that Texas should provide protection for viable fetuses by recognizing criminal ...
In 2013, Pregnancy Justice published the first comprehensive national documentation effort capturing...
Fetal-protection laws, such as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, are a contemporary means of uphol...
For more than three decades, American prosecutors have been bringing criminal prosecutions against p...
During the past fifteen years, the term fetal abuse has been applied to physical and developmental h...
Half a century of state-level restrictions on abortion access might cause a casual observer to concl...
Under the common law, the intentional killing of a fetus by a party other than the pregnant woman di...
Fetal homicide laws criminalize killing a fetus largely to the same extent as killing any other huma...
Is the difference between abortion and fetal homicide the pregnant woman\u27s choice-or the provider...
Fetal homicide laws, though initially created to protect both mothers and fetuses, serve to wholly p...
The worst problems with the fetal homicide laws that have proliferated around the nation are quite d...
Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when she was shot during an argument. She survived, but the i...
Across the United States, and especially in communities that are highly policed and in places hostil...
25 p. ; An outstanding student paper selected as a Honors Paper.Does the state have an interest in e...
A discussion of the recent case in which a pregnant Indiana woman named Bei Bei Shuai was prosecuted...
This Comment argues that Texas should provide protection for viable fetuses by recognizing criminal ...
In 2013, Pregnancy Justice published the first comprehensive national documentation effort capturing...
Fetal-protection laws, such as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, are a contemporary means of uphol...
For more than three decades, American prosecutors have been bringing criminal prosecutions against p...
During the past fifteen years, the term fetal abuse has been applied to physical and developmental h...
Half a century of state-level restrictions on abortion access might cause a casual observer to concl...