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They were prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant. But it may not have been a crime. – No Rights To Speak Of

They were prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant. But it may not have been a crime.

November 19, 2023 by Deborah

Some local investigators and prosecutors are pursuing similar cases in Alabama, Oklahoma and South Carolina. They are policing pregnant people under an expanded interpretation of child abuse and neglect laws — even if parents birthed healthy babies, according to an investigation by The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, AL.com, The Frontier and The Post & Courier.

Officials in Etowah County, Alabama, 185 miles to the east of Woods, are perhaps the champions of this approach, having arrested hundreds of women in the past several years.