Jury nullification.

They think fetuses are more important down there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/us/alabama-woman-marshae-jones.html

But in Pleasant Grove, a city of 10,000 people on the western outskirts of Birmingham, the case appears to have caused little controversy. Gun rights are popular here. Reproductive rights are not. Many conversations in the city focused on how harshly Ms. Jones should be punished, not whether she was culpable.

Outside Hill’s Foodland, the city’s only grocery store, two mothers raising money for the Pleasant Grove middle school cheerleading squad said that both Ms. Jones, 28, and the woman who shot her should face some consequences — perhaps anger management classes — for the death of a fetus.

“In the state of Alabama, an unborn baby has the same rights as a living child,” said Sharonda Hall, 38, who just earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and is hoping to attend law school. “Most people agree with it.”

Alabama's fetal homicide law, even when saying fetuses are people, specifically excludes prosecution of a woman criminally for homicide or assault with regard to her own unborn child.

It is similar to Arkansas's fetal homicide law:



How on earth did this even get through a grand jury? When police here gleefully posted that they'd arrested a woman for murder because they believed her methamphetamine use resulted in the preterm death of her infant, the prosecutor schooled them at the bail hearing that no, that was not allowed or cool.

Who dropped the ball? Does she have a legitimate case for malicious prosecution? The initial media about this case shows the officers involved, even when going with the theory she was shot directly in the abdomen by Ms. Jamison, said the only victim in the case was the child. Not the woman who was shot. Did his malice against Ms. Jones for getting into a fight while pregnant lead to this illegal and unjust indictment?

every single miscarriage is treated as a suspected homicide.