Alabama jailed Ashley Caswell on charges of endangering a fetus, then made her give birth without medical support.
Attorneys for an incarcerated mother in Alabama say she experienced nothing less than “torture” when she was jailed while pregnant, denied prescribed psychiatric medication and forced to give birth alone in a shower.
According to Emma Roth, a senior staff attorney at Pregnancy Justice representing Caswell, when she was finally taken to a hospital, Caswell received an iron infusion due to severe blood loss. Her newborn son was soon “ripped from her arms” and put into foster care. Caswell returned to the Etowah County Jail, where she allegedly experienced further abuse and medical neglect before being transferred to a state prison.
The answer lies in the anti-abortion movement and its fraught concept of “fetal personhood,” which has been deployed in courts and legislation to crush the human and reproductive rights of pregnant people and new mothers in multiple red states, especially after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
Until September 2022, when public outcry reached a fever pitch and attorneys with national pregnancy rights groups got involved, it was Etowah County policy toto pregnant people charged with “chemical endangerment” and jail them for months at a time as they waited for beds in mandatory rehab facilities to become available.to local media that was couched in anti-abortion rhetoric.
In 2019, ECDC staff refused to take a pregnant woman to the hospital for five days after her water broke prematurely, and she experienced vaginal bleeding and lost amniotic fluid. She later experienced a stillbirth.
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