The Miscarriage Prosecution Myth
What the media claims vs what's actually happening
Miscarriage is not a crime in the United States but talking to any pro-abortion fanatic, you wouldn’t know that. No woman, in the history of the US, has ever been charged and convicted for simply having a natural miscarriage. Not one.
We know this.
And yet the left continues to claim otherwise.
So instead of letting the same names circulate again and again without context, I’ve put together this article to walk through the most commonly cited cases and explain what actually happened.
This is a gift to my pro-life friends so you don’t have to dig through every headline yourself.
Let’s begin.
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The Mother Jones Article
I’m going to go through each woman listed in this article and show you that none of them were charged for having a miscarriage. They were charged with entirely separate crimes.
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Sasha
State: South Carolina
Charged With: Improper disposal of a human body
Summary:
• Claimed she miscarried in a hotel room at 18 weeks.
• Threw the baby in the trash.
• Did not report the death.
• No real name provided, making independent verification difficult.
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged for improper disposal of a human body.
If you deliver a baby at 18 weeks, a visibly formed human body, there are legal requirements for reporting and for proper, respectful disposition. That applies regardless of whether the death was intentional.
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Catherine
State: Alabama
Charged With: Drug-related charges while pregnant
Summary:
• Allegedly used drugs during pregnancy.
• Baby was reportedly born developed enough to be recognized and held.
• No full name provided, making verification difficult.
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged in connection with drug use during pregnancy.
Again - separate laws. Not related to pro-life abortion bans or miscarriage.
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Brittany Watts
State: Ohio
Charged With: Abuse of a corpse
Summary:
• Miscarried at 22 weeks.
• Shoved the deceased baby down a toilet.
• Hospital staff had concerns and reported it.
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged with abuse of a corpse.
If you deliver a baby at 22 weeks, well into the second trimester, you are legally required to report the birth and handle the remains lawfully. The charge stemmed from how the body was treated, not from the miscarriage itself.
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Amari Marsh
State: South Carolina
Charged With: Homicide by child abuse
Summary:
• Miscarried into a toilet and called 911.
• Told deputies she left the baby in the toilet because she didn’t know what to do.
• Deputies reportedly believed the baby might still be alive and repeatedly instructed her to remove the baby.
• EMS reported the baby still in the toilet on arrival, covered with toilet paper.
• EMS claimed they found “signs of life” and attempted resuscitation.
• Incident report states Marsh knew she was pregnant and had scheduled an appointment for a “Plan C pill.”
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged under homicide statutes based on allegations that a live child may have been left without aid.
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The Georgia Article
Once again, let’s go case by case.
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Unnamed Woman
State: Georgia
Charged With:
• Concealing the death of another person
• Throwing away/abandonment of a dead body
Summary:
• Miscarried at 19 weeks.
• Threw the baby in a dumpster.
• Did not report the death.
• No name provided.
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged for concealing and abandoning a body.
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Annie Bynum
State: Arkansas
Charged With:
• Concealing a birth
• Abuse of a corpse
Summary:
• Delivered a stillborn in the third trimester.
• Threw the baby’s body in a plastic bag.
• Left the baby’s body in her car for several hours.
• Did not inform anyone, including her mother (with whom she lived).
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged for concealing a birth and abuse of a corpse.
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Chelsea Becker
State: California
Charged With: Murder
Summary:
• Baby was 38 weeks gestation.
• Allegedly used meth during pregnancy.
• Charged in connection with the death of the stillborn baby.
She was never charged for having a miscarriage.
She was charged under homicide statutes due to alleged severe drug use late in pregnancy.
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The Best They’ve Got
These are the strongest cases activists can produce to argue that women are being prosecuted for miscarriages - drug addicts killing their children with meth and women throwing their third trimester baby’s body in dumpster without reporting a brith. None of these women were jailed with having a natural miscarriage - why? Because it’s 100% legal (as it should be). It’s unplanned, unintentional, tragic. No one is trying to criminalize it.
These women were charged for drug use, not reporting stillborns (later trimester births), and/or disposing of their baby’s bodies in inhumane illegal ways. Those are all separate laws, not pro-life laws. No pro-life law or abortion bans were involved in any of these cases.
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What Should Be Illegal?
It should be illegal to:
• Kill your unborn child with meth.
• Deliver a full-term or late-term baby and conceal the birth.
• Throw a human body in a dumpster.
• Mishandle a corpse.
• Leave a potentially living newborn without aid.
These are not “pro-life extremism.” These are normal laws. Good laws. Laws we already apply in other contexts. They have nothing to do with abortion or pro-life laws.
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The Bottom Line
You can confidently state the following:
No woman in the United States has ever been convicted for having a natural miscarriage.
That is factually true. When someone claims otherwise, ask them for a name. Look at the actual charge. And if they want to keep repeating the myth, feel free to send them here.
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To The Media:
Stop exploiting grieving mothers. Stop taking the heartbreak of miscarriage and twisting it into propaganda, and stop scaring women into believing they will be arrested for having a natural miscarriage. That is not happening, and you know it. You are using tragedy to manufacture fear. You tell women that pro-life laws mean handcuffs for miscarriages, when in reality the cases you constantly cite involve entirely different charges. But that doesn’t serve your narrative, so you blur it, hoping no one looks closely enough to see the difference.
And women are the ones who pay for your dishonesty. When you convince them that seeking medical care could land them in jail, you endanger them. When you imply that doctors cannot treat them, you create panic. You know that pro-life laws address intentional acts, not spontaneous tragedy, and yet you continue to collapse those categories because fear drives clicks and outrage drives profit. This is not journalism; it is manipulation.
You are leveraging the pain of families who have lost children to push support for abortion, the intentional ending of more than a million unborn lives each year in this country. You are weaponizing grief to advance an agenda. If you truly cared about women, you would tell the truth.
Thank you for pointing out the facts surrounding these cases and the lies and manipulation of the pro-abortion crowd.