Miscarriage of Justice
“When the police showed up at her door, Patience Frazier assumed the officers had come for someone else. As a woman in uniform started asking her questions on a Saturday morning in May 2018, five men eyed Frazier from the driveway, most in heavy tactical vests, the words ‘sheriff’ and ‘police’ emblazoned on their backs. A few had already fanned out to survey her home’s perimeter, hands on their holsters as if bracing to shoot. Frazier told the female sheriff’s deputy that her boyfriend wasn’t home, guessing he was in some kind of drug trouble. Then the woman asked about ‘Abel.’ Standing on the porch steps in socks and black leggings, the 26-year-old had a terrifying realization. The officers were there for her.” WaPo (Gift Article): She said she had a miscarriage — then got arrested under an abortion law. And this isn’t about one of the new laws. “In Nevada, Frazier would eventually be charged with manslaughter under a unique 1911 law that supplements the state’s abortion restrictions, titled ‘taking drugs to terminate pregnancy.'”