In the ever-changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor warns that people with miscarriages in his state are suffering from law problems.

Prosecutor Tom Truman said he is a Raleigh County prosecutor. He personally doesn’t charge anyone for the murder, but says he made the proposal from a wealth of caution after hearing the voices from other prosecutors.

Truman suggests that people may want to let local law enforcement know if they have a miscarriage. Several reproductive law experts say people across the country are actually facing accusations related to miscarriage, but they still don’t recommend contacting law enforcement.

Truman first appeared during a chat with other West Virginia prosecutors at a meeting several years ago, and has been a conversation going on ever since. At the time, the American woman was Roev. The initial conversation was theoretical because he had a constitutional right to abortion under Wade. However, some prosecutors believed that they could request a person using state laws related to the disposal of human bodies.

“I thought these guys were just biting something like dreams,” Truman said. However, he added that West Virginia’s legal law includes a definition that is “very extensive.”

method Prosecutors can interpret the law. This means that a miscarriage could face criminal charges, including felony, he said.

“It’s a different world now, and there’s a lot of discretion that prosecutors have, some of whom have an agenda that wants to model you,” Truman told CNN.

“What’s changed is that Law isn’t there anymore, so in some cases the prosecutor could get involved,” he said. “I’m just trying to say ‘take care’. ”

According to the American university of obstetricians and gynecologists, early pregnancy losses are common. This often occurs in around 10 known pregnancies, as the embryo is not developed properly. And some reproductive law experts say it’s probably not a good idea to call police when they happen.

“Inviting law enforcement into your reproductive life is always a mistake,” said Kim Muckerson, a law professor at Rutgers Law School, specializing in reproductive justice.

Calling police could prompt unwanted investigations, she says.

“No, it wasn’t actually a miscarriage, this was someone who took pills,” or if it was something they wanted to remind them, suddenly, from “this poor woman who had a miscarriage here” to “here we’re trying to start prosecutors,” Mutchersers said.

“I understand the idea that you’ll be more careful than getting caught up in something you didn’t expect, but it’s hard to imagine a situation you think is safe for someone who calls the police,” she added.

Dr. Christine Brandy, an OB/GYN in New Jersey and a fellow at the University of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said the hospital has a process around the organization from miscarriage. For example, they can be further tested, treated as medical waste, or sent to AA funeral homes depending on the patient’s desires.

“But in the real world, there’s no setting process,” Brandi said. Patients can pass through tissue and dispose of it in trash or toilets. In rare cases, people rarely offer organizations for further testing. Their doctors may be able to answer the questions, or Brandi said they can reach an M&A hotline that supports people experiencing miscarriage or abortion.

“By reporting miscarriages and perhaps having the organisation gather, it’s disrupting a process that’s been happening honestly for thousands of years,” Brandi said. “There is nothing in the pregnancy organization that can be found in formal investigations as a miscarriage or an abortion.”

Abortion is illegal in West Virginia, with exceptions in cases of medical emergency or inability to survive, or in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Kulsoom Ijaz is a senior policy lawyer for pregnancy justice, a nonprofit focused on human rights during pregnancy, and said he doesn’t think there is anything in West Virginia’s law that criminalizes miscarriage.

“I think the law is pretty clear,” she said. “There is nothing in the law that could lead to criminal charges related to loss of pregnancy or behaviour during pregnancy.

According to a report from the IJAZ organization, the US Supreme Court, which revoked the federal rights to become pregnant following the DOBBS decision, has seen an increase in the US Supreme Court’s decision that raised the risk that pregnant people could face criminal prosecution for a variety of reasons.

According to Pregnancy Justice, there were over 200 cases in the US when DOBBS was taken over during June 2022 and in June 2023. This number is likely to be shortfall, Ijaz said.

There were at least three cases in West Virginia related to pregnancy prosecutors. In one case, the state’s Supreme Court found that the state could not collect accusations of criminal child abuse against anyone for prenatal conduct, including substance use during pregnancy.

Despite strict abortion bans in place, Ijaz said “people still have protections when they’re pregnant.”

In states like Alabama, Ijaz is a little different in states that have fetal personality laws that grant fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses “the same rights as you and me.” “We face decades of incarceration for substance use during pregnancy, and we are seeing the fetus they carry as children,” she said.

Last year in Ohio, a woman who miscarried at her home was charged with a felony in response to advice from Warren City Prosecutors, but the large ju court dismissed the case.

Ijaz said she doesn’t think she has an appetite for these kinds of cases among the public, but no matter where someone lives, she invites the law into their lives right after a miscarriage is not wise.

The legal landscape for reproductive justice “seems to be almost changing on a daily basis” – not generally a favorable way for pregnant people, said Brittany Fonteno, CEO of the National Federation of Abortion, a professional association of abortion providers.

“The law, rhetoric, the culture we live in within the United States has become very hostile to those experiencing pregnancy,” she said.

“I think the intersection of healthcare and criminalization is a very dangerous path,” Fonteno added. “As a country, we should support our ability to access people and the health care they need, rather than conducting invasive and traumatic investigations into our reproductive lives.”

Fonteno recommends that anyone experiencing pregnancy loss reach out to a qualified healthcare professional rather than law enforcement.

“We live in a very different country than our previous country, but we still believe this is an individual experience and healthcare decision,” she said. “Most providers believe it too.”

Mutcherson also says that the American reproductive justice landscape is “terrifying” for those who are pregnant, want to get pregnant, or have a bad outcome. If there’s a silver lining to the discussion about criminalizing miscarriage, she said, it’s good for people to know that something like that could happen.

“Women have been criminalised for pregnancy for decades, but as long as there is a wider, broader conversation about the meaning of treating embryos and fetuses as humans, and how to reduce the personality of pregnant people, that’s actually valuable, right?” Mutcherson said. “Maybe this is actually going to take us into a better space.”

CNN’s Meg Tirrell contributed to this report.

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Gloves, fur coats, bear masks. This outfit may sound like avant-garde fashion, but it is actually the uniform of a caretaker of the San Diego Humane Society raising orphan black bear children.

A camper van in California’s Lospadres National Forest found a turnip in April. Biologists with the state’s Fish and Wildlife Department looked for the mother of the turnip for several days. After there were no signs of her, humanitarian society took him there.

The Cubs, nearly two months old when he was taken, is the youngest black bear the organization has ever cared for, according to Autumn Welch, the association’s wildlife operations manager and one of the turnip caregivers.

“At that age he was with his mother 24/7 and never really ventured out of the nest,” Welch said. “He would definitely not have survived on his own, so he would probably be rehabilitating for about a year.”

The goal is to ultimately bring the turnip back into the wild. Therefore, the bear outfit worn by his caretakers reduces the risk of him engraving on humans.

But does the costume actually convince him to the turnips being cared for by other bears?

According to Welch, they do. She said the caregiver recently tested by entering his enclosure without a costume to prevent the Cubs from identifying them as human.

“He ran up the tree in fear,” Welch said. “That’s what we want.”

Caregivers wear real fur coats donated to the Humane Society, Welch said. To make the costume even more trustworthy, the fur is stored in airtight containers with hay sourced from a local wildlife sanctuary that houses bears. She said the hay helps the fur smell like black bears.

“I don’t know if he sees us like a surrogate mom right now,” she said. “We’re his playmates like his brother, and it’s the kind of thing that comes, and if he wants to play with us, we’ll redirect him to a teddy bear.”

Along with the teddy bear, the turnip enclosure is filled with donated fur, black bear-scented hay, trees and plenty of places for him to climb and simulate a burrow, Welch said.

The cub is asleep and hides in one of each of the big teddy bears. Welch thinks he considers him to be his mother.

“This big teddy bear was something that provided him with comfort,” Welch said. “When we weren’t there, he sought shelter by her side, opposed her, took a nap and hugged her with the bear.”

Caregivers use their time in the turnip enclosure to teach him the skills his mother has taught him, how to climb, how to find eating grass and insects, how to build a nest.

“It was great to see him hit various milestones,” she said. “I remember when he first ate a bug, he digs up the dirt and picks out the beetles and eating them.

The San Diego Humane Society staff are not the first to care for orphaned wildlife. Employees at the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia were wearing fox masks while caring for orphan kits. At the Wildlife Midlands Centre in South Africa, employees taught orphan chicks how to drink water using makeshift crane costumes.

Welch said wearing a mask to care for young wildlife was a strategy he used when bottling baby raccoons and coyote puppies. She said that it is important because young wildlife is so impressive.

They have never cared for such a young bear, so they had to order supplies, including bear masks. Welch estimates it will cost $72,000 to care for the turnip for a year.

“It’s a labor of love,” she said. “We’re happy to help these animals, bring them back and see him thrive in the wild one day. It’s going to be the best we’ve ever had.”

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The 19th century ship, which sank nearly 140 years ago, is “freezing over time” off the coast of the British coast.

When SS Nantes sank off Cornwall in November 1888, 23 crew members were killed, but the location of the wreck has remained a mystery until now.

The surprising discovery comes after deep-sea diver Dom Robinson found a piece of dish in a watery ruin.

Back on the land, 53-year-old Robinson saw a stamp called “Cunard Steamship Company” on the broken plate.

It turns out he and a team of fellow divers were exploring SS Nantes, according to Harry Bennett, a history professor and maritime expert at the University of Plymouth.

“Nantes is one of the known but long lost ships,” he told CNN on Friday.

The fateful day when the steamship was attacked by the German sailing ship Theodor Ruger was poor.

“It thrusts the side of Nantes and tears a huge hole in that side,” Bennett said. “For several hours, the crew tried to save the ship to fill the hole, including the mattress, using all sorts of materials.

The two boats were “temporarily locked” before sinking, Bennett said. The collision damaged Nantes’ lifeboat. This meant that the crew could not escape. Only three survived, including one man found at sea and two who jumped off the ship.

“Theodore Ruger will also go down, but her lifeboat is in better condition, so even if she loses a few crew members, most will be saved by running away on the lifeboat.

Sharing the story on his YouTube channel, Robinson told CNN that the shipwreck was found at a depth of 75 meters (246 feet) last fall on the English Channel 30 miles southeast of Plymouth.

“When you descend to the wreck, you look for what you might identify them,” Robinson said. “It was at the end of my dive and I was a little disappointed because I didn’t find anything.”

But then he saw the broken plate. It proved to be a “big clue to identifying the container,” he said. When Robinson jumped out of the site again earlier this year, the brand’s second plate was found in the logo.

Along with other details of the shipwreck, including builds and dimensions, the plates helped to verify the ship’s identity.

“Every wreck is a time capsule,” Bennett said.

“When that wreck falls, things are frozen in time, in the mud and in the surrounding area. The idea that we are seeing plates that our crew may have been eating last is very heartbreaking.

“We suddenly revisit the tragedy from 1888, recalling it coincides with such fears that tell us stories about life in the maritime world of the late 19th century.”

Part of the motivation for deep diving on a shipwreck is the detective work and the opportunity to explore the final frontier, Robinson said.

“For ordinary people like me, there is no place to explore. There is no more mountain left, and they have not been discovered.

“I’ve gotten a lot of buzz from it because in the UK, there are probably more shipwrecks around our coast than anywhere else in the world.