National Advocates for Pregnant Women
A Woman Got Six Extra Years in Prison Because She Was Pregnant
A federal judge applied enhanced sentencing guidelines for causing harm to a child because a woman was carrying a fetus when she visited a meth lab.
A Woman Got Six Extra Years in Prison Because She Was Pregnant
Lacey Weld was 26 years old and in the final weeks of pregnancy when a camera attached to an undercover police officer captured her 40-minute visit to a meth-manufacturing plant. A judge threw the book at her, but advocates are fighting back.
Locking Up Pregnant Drug Users Has Devastating Consequences
If you’re pregnant in the US, use drugs, and don’t do exactly what your doctor says, you could go to jail, harming mother and baby alike.
Women Are Being Prosecuted for Losing Their Babies
The abortion argument has rumbled on noisily for over a century in this country. These cases of women getting prosecuted for losing their babies isn't unrelated to that debate, but it is more of a sideshow, in which laws made to punish people who...