HB23-1187 urges courts to offer bonds or other alternatives rather than incarcerating pregnant women. The law went into effect August 7.
urged courts to offer bonds or other sentences besides jail time for pregnant women. It was passed by the Colorado Legislature in April with the help of testimony from Newman, who says that if the bill had become law earlier, Sanchez might have avoided her traumatic experience.
"Instead of ensuring that Ms. Sanchez was able to give birth in a safe and sanitary medical setting, Denver Health nurses and Denver Sheriff deputies callously made her labor alone for hours...
"The guard there decided they couldn't bother contacting the medical professional even though [Clifton] was a woman at full term and in labor," Newman recalls."She was in labor for hours and hours over the course of which she quit feeling any fetal movement, and it turned out her baby had died." Instead, guards told Clifton to go back to her prison unit because it had"plenty of women there who know how to birth babies," Newman says."I remember the phrase because it was so shocking. If she had been taken to the hospital like she should have been, her baby could have been saved."
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