the feminist librarian reads

Part of the problem is that the distinctions between a spontaneous miscarriage, an induced abortion, and a stillbirth are not hard and fast. In fact, a misoprostol-caused abortion, particularly in the early stages, is impossible to distinguish from a plain old miscarriage when you present at a hospital. If law enforcement really is serious about punishing women for self-abortion—and this situation in Dallas suggests that there’s a lot of eagerness to do just that—then that means simply having a miscarriage is going to open a lot of women up to this kind of ugly, intrusive response from law enforcement.