Decades before the overturning of Roe v.
Howard traces the long history of state attempts to regulate and control people who have the capacity for pregnancy--from the early twentieth century\'s white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe and the ever-increasing criminalization of abortion across the United States..
Drawing on detailed analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over a thousand arrest cases, Grace E.
T he Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds much-needed light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in this ongoing surveillance and punishment of pregnant people.
Wade , pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated.
Decades before the overturning of Roe v
