Referencing a newly-released letter from the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center and other advocacy groups, Slate details chilling accounts of medical neglect and abuse endured by pregnant and postpartum women in ICE detention. Advocates say these reports expose a longstanding, systemic pattern of mistreatment and a dangerous disregard for protections that should prevent the detention of pregnant people.

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Read our letter calling for the end of detention for pregnant women here.