Karen Bass: “We outlawed that [shackling pregnant women] in California.”

“So a woman who is nine months pregnant is getting ready to deliver a baby on the gurney while she's in labor. She's shackled to the gurney. Now where is a woman going to go? And so We outlawed that [shackling pregnant women] in California. We did have to do some accompanying legislation, but I think that that was something that was inhumane and needed to go. And so we were able to pass that.” (06:46–06:49)

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