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cjgl-8061	Chandra, Nisha	What To Expect When You’re No Longer Expecting: How States Use Concealment and Abuse of a Corpse Statutes Against Women	2021	39	.pdf	application/pdf	15960	674	55	These expectations of motherhood result in a model of “good” motherhood as white, middle-class, and heterosexual.133 This duty of motherhood extends to the prenatal phase, where there is enormous pressure placed on pregnant women to be the protector of the fetus and make sure it is as healthy as possible.134 As a part of this idealized model, women are expected to perform a litany of “correct” behaviors—eat the right foods, sleep in the right positions, and get the right amount of prenatal care—regardless of any barriers such as a lack of education or access to healthcare.135 While these behaviors may be in the best interest of the fetus, failing to perform them is not necessarily a crime.136 Parents have no legal duty to use their bodies to save their children,137 yet society expects this self-sacrifice from pregnant women. In El Salvador, women who experience pregnancy loss are immediately under criminal suspicion.180 The Utah legislature passed the Criminal Homicide and Abortion Revisions Act in 2010, which includes provisions to punish pregnant women who “knowingly” commit an act that could result in miscarriage.181 Laws such as these put the state in the position of balancing the rights of the fetus and the woman, as well as determining whose rights gets precedence when they conflict.	cache/cjgl-8061.pdf	txt/cjgl-8061.txt