From my reading of they article, I think this is a little different. The ones in the US are for miscarrying, mostly if they test positive for illicit substances (so amphetamines/cocaine etc), under the ‘foetal assault laws’ that exist in many of the states. They have also been used successfully against women who’ve delivered at home or miscarried through falling.
The UK ones are more cases of women who have procured abortion medications outside of health services, in order to induce an abortion themselves after the legal threshold of 24 weeks+, which is a bit different.
I am not in any way condoning the decisions to charge these women…I personally think that without in-depth knowledge of the cases, and the reasons why the women in question chose that drastic course of action, then I can’t possibly judge them. It’s not something anyone would do on a whim.
But I’m not sure it can be classed as the same as ‘drug user miscarries, with no proof it was due to their drug use, but will be criminalised and imprisoned anyway’. Even if they do serve their sentences and are released, last I checked, the US doesn’t have spent convictions etc. These women miscarried and then are jailed - they can never vote again, never get a job without reliving their trauma of losing their baby and being incarcerated for it, never volunteer for anything with a background check.
It’s probably closer to the women who were imprisoned here for children they lost to cot deaths, thanks to that medical professional who provided completely erroneous clinical advice on the statistical chances of having more than one cot death in your family.