From June 2022 to June 2024 — the first two years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade — prosecutors initiated at least 412 cases across the country charging individuals with crimes related to their pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth.

This document provides a preliminary update on pregnancy-related prosecutions in the U.S. during those first two years after the Dobbs decision. This update focuses on pregnant people and the charges and allegations brought against them.

The data is part of the Pregnancy Prosecutions Tracking Study, a research study examining pregnancy criminalization in the three years after Dobbs.