One Quarter of Human Pregnancies End in Miscarriage

And a whole lot of women are going to jail

Patsy Fergusson
Fourth Wave
Published in
9 min readMar 9, 2024

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Woman being arrested in Texas in 2019 for “lying about having a miscarriage.” Photo from this story on kcentv.com

I found a story online that said most human pregnancies end in miscarriage. The author cited a meta-analysis of multiple studies conducted by an evolutionary geneticist from UC Santa Barbara which found that many miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks, even before women know they are pregnant. It…

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Patsy Fergusson
Fourth Wave

Tree hugger. Tour guide. Top Writer. Feminist. Newly-baptized Bay swimmer. Editor of Fourth Wave. https://medium.com/fourth-wave