U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been denying people entry into the country after searching their phones. Gaby Del Valle from The Verge details what travelers should know about their rights. Andrea González-Ramírez, senior writer for The Cut, joins to discuss her reporting on a woman who was criminally charged after suffering a miscarriage. The Washington Post’s Patrick Marley tells us what to watch in today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Plus, the worst quarter for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes in years, the bodies of three U.S. soldiers were recovered in Lithuania, and how April Fools’ pranks can backfire. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, April 1st. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, why Elon Musk is stumping for a state Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin, what travelers should know about what border officials can access on your phone, and corporate April Fool's jokes that have failed spectacularly. But first, a warning.
This segment contains graphic descriptions of a miscarriage. Last month, a 24-year-old woman in Tifton, Georgia, was found unconscious and bleeding. She was transported to a hospital by paramedics who determined that she had miscarried.
But instead of having the time to grieve the loss and recover from the trauma, police charged her with concealing the death of another person and abandonment of a dead body.
This case, of course, has horrified abortion rights advocates and reproductive rights advocates because it's just like yet another example of what pregnancy criminalization looks like after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez is a senior writer with New York magazine's The Cut.
The coroner determined that the fetus gestational age was around 19 weeks, meaning it would not have survived outside of the womb. The coroner also said there was no evidence of harm and that instead the woman had naturally miscarried.
Pregnancy loss is very common. About one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Some women might miscarry and not even realize it. In this specific case, the woman is not being charged for having a miscarriage, but for not properly disposing of the fetal remains, which were found in the dumpster of her apartment complex.
So the question here is like, what should a person do then if they're miscarrying, right? If you have an 11-week pregnancy when that loss might look more like slightly more than a heavy period, right? Does this mean that you're required to scoop the fetal remains from the toilet and take your pad to a hospital or to a coroner or to a funeral home, right?
Like, it just opens up a lot of questions that there's no law, there's no legislation that dictates how people should be handling the product of their miscarriages.
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