The biggest threats to life, born and unborn, do not come from mommies but rather from poverty, barriers to health care, persistent racism, environmental hazards, and prosecutions like [the one against Rennie Gibbs]. Every medical group, including the ones that focus on babies, says that [prosecuting pregnant women for using drugs] frighten[s] women away from necessary care to the detriment of children.
Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, on a Mississippi judge’s decision to throw out murder charges against Rennie Gibbs in the death of her stillborn daughter
read my ProPublica piece on the ruling here