When a 24-year-old woman in Tifton, Georgia, was found outside of her apartment unconscious and bleeding in March, she was arrested by police. She'd had a miscarriage, and after cops received an anonymous tip, they recovered some fetal remains in a dumpster nearby. And so the Tift County Sheriff's Office jailed her for "concealing the death of another person" and "abandonment of a dead body."
Mifepristoneâs primary purpose has always been to allow women to control their own bodies and lives by ending their pregnancies, but it faces ongoing scrutiny.