Criminalizing Pregnant Women

Published November 26, 2013

Criminalizing pregnant women
Certainly there has been a concerted effort to undermine, disrespect and destroy Black motherhood going back to slavery. Part of the reason people were so quick to believe the media myths around the impact of cocaine use on pregnant women was that it …
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17-year-old whose cocaine use allegedly killed her unborn baby charged with …
BATON ROUGE, LA, November 15, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 17-year old pregnant mother has been charged with second-degree feticide after police say her cocaine use led to the death of her unborn child. According to police the girl, Princess Beachem, …
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Feticide charge rejected by BR judge
Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, the non-profit advocacy group, concurred with White's interpretation of the feticide statute but said it would be “irresponsible” to rule out holding pregnant women accountable for drug use. “We're …
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