Police Brutality & Civil Rights
Assault on Pregnant Individuals
2 statutes with plain-language summaries, case relevance, source links, and related Michigan practice areas.
Statutory text checked against the Michigan Compiled Laws, complete through PA 16 of 2026, on June 12, 2026.
Assault on Pregnant Individuals
2 statutes"If a person intentionally commits conduct proscribed under sections 81 to 89 against a pregnant individual," the person is guilty of the life-or-any-term felony if the statutory intent and miscarriage, stillbirth, embryo, or fetus death requirements are met.Read Full Statute
Michigan's 1998 fetal-protection statutes create criminal penalties when assaultive conduct against a pregnant individual causes miscarriage, stillbirth, or death or injury to an embryo or fetus. Section 750.90a is the life-or-any-term felony provision when the statutory intent and result requirements are met.
Police brutality against a pregnant individual can cause catastrophic harm beyond the physical injuries to the mother. Criminal findings may matter, but the civil claim must still be pleaded under the correct civil-rights, tort, wrongful-death, or fetal-injury theory.
We pursue full damages for pregnancy loss caused by police violence, including the emotional devastation of losing a child due to government misconduct, alongside the mother's physical injury claims.
"A person who intentionally commits conduct proscribed under sections 81 to 89 against a pregnant individual is guilty of a crime" with penalties graded by resulting harm: miscarriage, stillbirth, death, great bodily harm, serious or aggravated physical injury, or physical injury to the embryo or fetus.Read Full Statute
MCL 750.90b grades criminal penalties by the harm caused to the embryo or fetus: death, great bodily harm, serious or aggravated physical injury, or physical injury. It is harm-based, not trimester-based.
When police violence injures a pregnant individual and harms an embryo or fetus, the criminal statute can help describe the seriousness of the harm, but civil liability depends on separate civil statutes and constitutional claims.
We pursue all available civil remedies in police misconduct cases involving harm to pregnant women and their unborn children, using the criminal statute framework to establish the full scope of the harm caused.