By Rayna Reid ·Updated October 20, 2021
Earlier this month, 21-year old Brittany Poolaw, a member of the Comanche Nation, was tried and convicted of first-degree manslaughter “for having a miscarriage.” Poolaw was sentenced by a jury to four years in a state prison.
The prosecution team alleged that methamphetamine use caused the miscarriage; however, “there was no evidence that her meth use caused the miscarriage, which the autopsy indicated could have been caused by