Miscarriage or Murder? How Miscarriage Could Become a Crime in Post-Roe America
By Nicole Page and Bilal Mubarack Is having a miscarriage a crime? The terrifying answer is: maybe. The California Penal Code § 187 defines murder as “the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.” The addition of “fetus” in this definition stems from the 1970...