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Ramirez-Cruz was 40 weeks pregnant and the fetus was just days away from being due. According to a criminal complaint, Morales-Rodriguez called police hours later to report that she'd just given birth in her shower and the baby wasn't breathing. The fetus was pronounced dead, and an autopsy determined the baby did not belong to Morales-Rodriguez.
The use of shackles or restraints on pregnant women is a common practice in prisons and jails in the United States. [1] Shackling is defined as "using any physical restraint or mechanical device to control the movement of a prisoner's body or limbs, including handcuffs, leg shackles, and belly chains". [2]
Samantha Burton, a mother of two, was twenty-five weeks pregnant in March 2009 when she experienced a premature rupture of membranes and displayed signs of premature labor. [1] At the urging of her obstetrician, she sought care at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. [1] She was found not to be in labor, but ordered to remain on bed rest. [1]
Pregnant women like Brittany Watts, 33, have increasingly found themselves charged with “crimes against their own pregnancies,” a San José […] The post A Black woman was criminally charged ...
The woman, 22, discovered she was pregnant at the start of her prison sentence after she was jailed for five years in June 2023. Woman to be freed from prison after pregnancy discovery Skip to ...
When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are ...
Todaro v. Ward argued that women within a New York prison did not have adequate, constitutional access to healthcare. Since Todaro v. Ward was the first major court case that called into question incarcerated women's actual access to health care, it spurred organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Correctional Association, and the American Public Health Association to ...
Women’s health expert Dr. Jennifer Wider tells Yahoo Life that “weeks 5 to 9 is the early time period in a pregnancy. At 5 weeks, the embryo is a mass of cells with a developing neural tube ...