Carpenter is one of dozens of clients receiving representation from attorneys at Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group that’s just welcomed a new president, Lourdes Rivera, to help steer it through this muddy and volatile legal climate for reproductive rights. In a phone interview, Rivera told me about growing up in a Puerto Rican community and learning as a child about the legacy of forced sterilizations performed on women in her community.
Thus far in 2023, Pregnancy Justice has worked on 30 cases involving the policing and criminalization of pregnant people—the total number of cases it worked on throughout the entirety of 2022. And Rivera tells me the organization is “busier than ever post-
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