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With a particular focus on Alabama, digital ads across Meta, Snapchat, and Google Search will educate and mobilize against the prosecution of pregnant people post-Dobbs

NEW YORK — Pregnancy Justice today launched Pregnancy is Not a Crime, a targeted digital campaign running across Meta, Snapchat, and Google Search to raise awareness about the criminalization of pregnancy nationwide and in Alabama specifically. The campaign directs audiences to a new landing page with ways to learn more at pregnancyjusticeus.org/notacrime.

In the two years after the Supreme Court’s dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Pregnancy Justice documented at least 412 pregnancy-related prosecutions across the U.S., reflecting the push to grant legal rights to fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses at the expense of pregnant people’s rights. Alabama represents nearly half of the cases.

“No one should lose their rights because they’re pregnant — not in Alabama, not in Oklahoma, not in California, or anywhere else. And yet they are,” said Lourdes A. Rivera, president of Pregnancy Justice. “When officials choose punishment over care, they endanger pregnant people’s health, autonomy, and families. Our campaign makes the stakes clear and lets people know we’re in this fight for the long haul.”

The new data show prosecutions overwhelmingly target alleged conduct during pregnancy — often related to substance use, when people most need care — and fall hardest on low-income people, in the South, and in states aggressively advancing so-called “fetal personhood,” a strategy used by anti-abortion leaders to give rights to fetuses and embryos and criminalize pregnancy outcomes.

In Alabama alone, prosecutors brought at least 192 pregnancy-related cases in the first two years after dobbs, most often by stretching child endangerment or similar statutes to target alleged conduct during pregnancy. Pregnancy Justice represents women charged for their pregnancies and pregnancy outcomes across the U.S., including many in Alabama, and secured a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit for Ashley Caswell, who was left to give birth unassisted while in the custody of an Alabama jail.

The campaign features strong illustrated images by Victoria Manzanilla along with messages that include:

  • Healthcare, Not Handcuffs
  • Compassion, Not Punishment
  • No Jail Time for Pregnancy
  • Alabama Moms and Babies Deserve Care, Not Punishment

All campaign images can be found aquí. Learn more: pregnancyjusticeus.org/notacrime.

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Justicia del embarazo advances and defends the rights of pregnant people, no matter if they give birth, experience a pregnancy loss, or have an abortion. No one should lose their rights because of pregnancy.