In his commutation, Brown cited an appeals court ruling that called Smith's second-degree murder conviction a likely miscarriage of justice.
Black families are already disproportionately more likely to experience miscarriage, stillbirth, pre-term birth, low birth weight, and maternal and infant mortality than their white counterparts.
This left more women in ICE detention facilities with sub-standard prenatal care, which, experts had been warning for months, was likely to cause miscarriages.
This is dangerous for the child (her health, her social life, her education) and for children she might bear (it is much more likely to have miscarriages and child deaths in that age group).
The court concluded "there has very likely been a miscarriage of justice in this case".
One in every four pregnant women has likely had a miscarriage, and if you count early pregnancies before a missed period, that jumps to half.
Owens et al. (abstract 320) studied 1,441 women with normal glucose tolerance at 24 28 weeks of pregnancy, finding that overweight women had greater rates of macrosomia and were more likely to have miscarriage and Caesarian section and had higher birth weight.
Pregnancies after a miscarriage or stillbirth are more likely to result in a subsequent miscarriage or stillbirth, respectively, and this tends to occur irrespective of the interval between the pregnancies.
Asylum-seeking and refugee women are statistically more likely to experience late miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
The Matlab DSS data on induced abortion and miscarriage are likely to be of high quality and not to suffer from underreporting.
