Chelsea Becker, who struggled with addiction during her pregnancy, faced murder charges in Kings County after experiencing a stillbirth in 2019, which the DA blamed on her drug use. Though she was unable to raise the $2 million needed to post bail and served 16 months in jail, the charges were ultimately dropped and she was freed in 2021.

Becker's attorney, Samatha Lee of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, told the San Francisco Chronicle her client's case — and a similar 2018 case — are part of a growing national trend of criminalizing pregnant people after stillbirth and miscarriage. 
"When that door is opened, then anything someone does or doesn't do during their pregnancy could be charged similarly," Lee told the San Francisco Chronicle. "We're already seeing it, and we expect it to only get worse."

National Advocates for Pregnant Women has found criminal prosecutions against pregnant people have tripled from 2006 to 2020 compared to cases prosecuted from 1973 to 2005. As the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade protections after a draft court opinion was leaked, several states have laws in place to make abortion a criminal offense. 


Becker, who had a second child who was placed into foster care and adopted before her release from jail, has since become an advocate for a California bill that would stop pregnancy loss criminalization. 

"I hope that in the future, no woman will ever be prosecuted for losing a pregnancy," she wrote in a letter to state lawmakers.


https://www.businessinsider.com/reproductive-rights-attorney-expects-prosecution-for-miscarriages-to-get-worse-2022-6?amp

And so it begins...

She lies when she says
"I hope that in the future, no woman will ever be prosecuted for losing a pregnancy," she wrote in a letter to state lawmakers.

Her crime was using drugs to directly or indirectly kill her baby.

But all the doctors who killed babies on that same day will not be charged.

I caught that, too, and thought the same.

You do see where this is leading, though, right?  A woman who is high-risk for a live birth, and is recommended to opt for birth control or sterilization, but refuses--and continues to have a baby that may or may not make it full term, or be stillborn--could be prosecuted.  Or home-births, considered by many to be dangerous--would be outlawed.  And so on and so forth. 

Yes, the real lining for the state is they want you to not use supplements to help your pregnancy. This is coming at the same time the FDA is "cracking down" on supplements. They will paint with a broad brush and equivocate here, so it will be illegal for mothers to take any unprescribed substance ie choline etc which simply make your baby healthier.