Find Dr. Grace Howard’s new book, The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood, on bookshop.org.
Learn more about Dr. Grace Howard’s work on her website.
If you are a health care provider, consider not drug testing your pregnant patients (only a few states require mandated reporters) and be more cautious about what you choose to write down on a chart. If a prosecutor in your jurisdiction is fudging the law, vote them out. Generate outrage—on social media or via protest. If you need follow up care after taking abortion pills, you do not have to tell medical staff that you have previously taken abortion pills.
If you can, donate to and support organizations like If/When/How and Pregnancy Justice, which seek to protect the human and legal rights of those criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes. You can also support the Movement for Family Power and Just Making a Change for Families.
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