By Gabrielle Fagan
Legal environmental protections have been on the rise, following an increase in scholarship on climate impacts as well as the passage of federal regulations within the last century.1 However, as environmental laws begin to take shape, they are systematically excluding a massive community of Americans - pregnant people. More specifically, environmental justice advocacy has acknowledged the inequitable impact environmental hazards have on poor people of color in the United States,2 but has not meaningfully accounted for maternal health within this demographic.