When a 21-year-old Native American woman from Oklahoma was convicted of manslaughter after having a miscarriage, people were outraged. But she was not alone.

This October, she was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the first-degree manslaughter of her unborn son.

From 1973-2020, NAPW has recorded 1,600 such cases, with about 1,200 occurring in the last 15 years alone.

US women are being jailed for having miscarriages – BBC News