Patience Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are criminalized – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws never intended to punish those experiencing pregnancy loss, experts say.
“Why would you be sorry? Why would you be sorry, Patience?”
Patience Rousseau, then 26, was shivering on the doorstep of the house she was living in with her two children as the sheriff’s deputy repeated her question.
The Humboldt County, Nevada, she... [19834 chars]