In 2017, a woman named Adora was charged with murder after she delivered a stillborn baby at Adventist Health Hanford in California. The baby tested positive for methamphetamine, and a doctor told police he thought the drug caused the death. She pleaded guilty to a charge of “voluntary manslaughter of a fetus”—a charge that doesn’t actually exist in California law—and was sentenced to eleven years in prison. Her conviction was overturned in 2022.26
