Welcome to America’s dystopian hellscape, brought to you by Donald J. Trump, who overturned Roe. We’ve all read the stories of women dying after being turned down for proper medical care.
In this case, Amari Marsh, 23, was arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse last year after losing her pregnancy through a miscarriage. She spent a whopping 22 days in a South Carolina jail.
The charges have since been dropped, but her arrest never should have happened.
Wis10 reports:
“When I was initially arrested, I thought it was a joke,” she said in a Tuesday interview. “I genuinely thought it was a joke because I had never been in trouble in my life. As I was sitting there, I couldn’t do nothing but cry.”
She spent 22 days in the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center.
She is now cleared of the charge after a grand jury determined in August that there was not probable cause to move forward with the case.
Advocates said her case prioritizes the need for an increased emphasis on maternal health support, particularly for women of color, in South Carolina and around the country.
An arrest warrant said she failed to seek prenatal care and accused her of not rendering aid fast enough to the fetus that she miscarried.
But at the time, Marsh said she was not aware she was pregnant, was experiencing a normal menstrual cycle and was not showing.
