Skip to main content
healthcare-legal

Law's Jessie Hill examines the legal challenges of pregnancy post-Roe

MEDIA | December 29, 2023
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

Associated PressJessie Hill, associate dean for research and faculty development and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, weighed in on the case of a woman who was criminally charged after she had a miscarriage. “These are the razor’s edge decisions that health care providers are being forced to make,” she said. “And all the incentives are pushing hospitals to be conservative, because on the other side of this is criminal liability. That’s the impact of Dobbs.”

EXPLORE MORE:
HEALTHCARE, SCHOOL OF LAW, MEDIA