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cjrl-6115	Jones , Joella Adia 	The Failure to Protect Pregnant Pretrial Detainees: The Possibility of Constitutional Relief in The Second Circuit Under a Fourteenth Amendment Analysis	2020	57	.pdf	application/pdf	19656	758	46	Falling victim to a particularly pernicious mythology that degrades Black motherhood,8 Black women are more likely to die from preventable pregnancy-related complications than White women.9 For Black pregnant women in prisons and jails, these health inequities are irrefutably compounded.10 As outlined in the seminal scholarship of Dorothy Roberts, racist ideology in America paints Black reproduction as a “form imprisoned at some point in their lifetime.”); Jamal Hagler, 6 Things You Should Know About Women of Color and the Criminal Justice System, CTR. No. 10:2] THE FAILURE TO PROTECT 143 of degeneracy,” perpetuating the myth that Black mothers transmit inferior physical traits and damage their babies in utero because of reckless habits during pregnancy.11 While the modern movement for reproductive justice has gained mainstream visibility,12 the goals of reproductive freedom, health equity, and racial justice have yet to be realized.13 The practice of shackling pregnant women is one of the most glaringly dehumanizing abuses women in American prisons and jails endure.14	cache/cjrl-6115.pdf	txt/cjrl-6115.txt