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Pregnant Marshae Jones was shot in the stomach in December, 2018. On Wednesday, she was indicted for the murder of her unborn baby. Sounds absurd, right? That’s because it is.
But this isn’t just a logic problem meant for students in their first year of law school, and it certainly cannot be examined in an apolitical bubble. The shooting happened in Alabama, recently notorious for its efforts to make abortion a crime, placing the value of an unborn fetus above that of any pregnant woman - especially a black, pregnant woman. Race cannot be ignored when thinking about Jones’ arrest, considering the deliberate measures the state has taken to criminalize black bodies.
Marshae Jones was also only indicted for manslaughter after a grand jury failed to find Ebony Jemison, the woman who shot Jones, guilty. After our judicial system failed to put one black woman in prison, they went for the other one. Jones and Jemison’s objectified bodies are easily interchangeable, as long as they can be used to uphold the narrative of black criminality.
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