Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth
The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test. Dr. Sharon Ostfeld-Johns and her hospital ...
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Tag: Pregnant Women
Miscarriages Illegal? These States Investigated Them as Crimes
In late March, police in southern Georgia arrested a 24-year-old woman who had a miscarriage after a witness reported seeing ...
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Mississippi Women Who Used Drugs While Pregnant Got Long Prison Terms
Brandy Moore says her 5-year-old daughter saved her life. The rural Mississippi mother began her 2019 pregnancy bitterly. The father ...
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Why Hospitals Report Women to Child Welfare Over Prescribed Drugs for Childbirth
Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that ...
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How Some States Turn Pregnancy Loss Into Criminal Cases Against Women
It often starts with suspicion: Why didn’t she call for an ambulance when the bleeding started? What if she didn’t ...
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Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit Claims
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this ...
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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
Susan Horton had been a stay-at-home mom for almost 20 years, and now — pregnant with her fifth child — ...
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This Hospital Test Could Cost You Custody of Your Baby
Imagine you’re going to have a baby. You have made plans — who will be there, how you expect it ...
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How Abortion Laws Post-Roe Are Causing Fear and Confusion
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