I am a pregnant doctor who received the Covid-19 vaccine. Within hours of making my decision public on social media, scathing attacks from anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers ensued. I have been working in the heart of the pandemic as an emergency doctor since Covid hit New York. I have witnessed Covid-19 ravage and destroy communities. I have lost colleagues to Covid, and I also survived Covid. After recovering I went back to continue serving my.
Pregnant People of Color are Bearing the Brunt of the War on Drugs
âFetal protectionâ laws are criminalizing pregnant people who use drugs or alcohol, rather than approaching this as a public-health issue.
When Chelsea Becker was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, she delivered a stillborn baby. An autopsy found high levels of methamphetamine in its system, and Becker, then twenty-five, was subsequently charged with first-degree murder. Bail was initially set at $5 million, then lowered to an equally out-of-reach $2 million. As a result, Becker has been in pre-trial detention at the King County Jail in Hanford, California, since November 2019.
âProsecuting someone like Chelsea Becker doesnât bring her fetus back or help her grieve her loss. Unfortunately, miscarriages and stillbirths are not uncommon; quite simply, âfetal protectionâ laws are terrible public policy.â