prosecuting pregnant cannabis users for child endangerment or using positive drug tests to declare them unfit mothers since these interventions can be counterproductive to actually...
By: Diana Kawka* · In Etowah County, Alabama, being pregnant places women at risk of severe punishment for what would otherwise be minor offenses, receiving wildly disparate treatment than their male counterparts.[2] Alabama leads the nation in pregnancy criminalization, with Etowah County disproportionately seeking to imprison and prosecute mothers and pregnant women.[3] Pregnancy criminalization is defined as when a person is arrested for “reasons related to their pregnancy, or where the t...
Users of the website could add their contact information if they would like, but they would not be required to, nor would a database attempt to log all the pregnant women in the country....
it should be. Between a third and half of children who grow... illegal drug users tend to trump rational considerations of... Some are criminally prosecuted for using the maintenance...
protecting users’ data privacy, according to a new report... ours — should be working even harder to protect data on... Business A drug for pregnant women doesn’t work, according to...
surveil pregnant people and submitted as evidence that someone should be prosecuted for seeking an abortion. The group... our users’ personal data –– we don’t sell them products...
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Abstract ; Pregnant women who misuse substances (alcohol, tobacco, and prescription and illicit drugs) are positioned at the nexus of public health and criminal justice intervention. The impact of their substance use on their personal health and the health of their fetuses is a public health concern, as professionals in this field are dedicated to improving maternal and infant health. In addition, the past three decades have seen prenatal substance use become a criminal justice issue as the feta...
Kim Blalock had just laid down after a long day’s drive to Kentucky with her husband and three of their six children on Nov. 30, 2020 when her phone started buzzing. It was a call from her 16- and 17-year-old teenage sons back home at the family’s house in Florence, Alabama, who hadn’t wanted to come on their dad’s business trip. When she picked up her phone, she knew immediately that something was wrong. “Mom, what have you done?” one of the boys asked with panic in his voice. ...
9. Prenatal Healthcare After Sentencing Reform ; "Our examination of the effects of Pennsylvania’s criminal sentencing reform showed that after the policy was implemented, early prenatal care increased on average and inadequate prenatal care declined. Our fixed effects interrupted time series design used multiple points of comparison to assess whether reductions in incarceration improved racial and socioeconomic health equity. First, we found the benefits for prenatal care were largely limited...