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[quote=Anonymous]Those of you yelling about how the woman deserves prison because her amphetamine use killed her baby -- did you actually read the article? In any detail? Do you have any ability at all to see legal nuance? I despair that people like you are opining on this without even attempting to acknowledge what is actually said in the article. You cherry-picked and read what you wanted to see, or didn't read at all and are just reacting to other posts.

Use your brains. Read the actual article. Are you fine with the district attorney making a medical decision re: cause of death? That's what happened here:

[i]Brittney Poolaw, 20, was found guilty by a jury earlier this month after the Comanche County District Attorney's Office in Oklahoma said her methamphetamine use was the cause of the loss of her fetus.

However, [b]the cause of death from the DA differed from the medical examiner.[/b]

Poolaw was between 15 and 17 weeks pregnant when she suffered a miscarriage on January 4, 2020, according to the medical examiners report viewed by USA TODAY.

[b]The report said the miscarriage could have happened due to genetic anomaly or placenta abruption.[/b]

They did note there was evidence of Poolaw using methamphetamine as it was found in the baby's liver and brain, but [b]the medical examiner did not assign a cause of death.[/b]

[/i]Later the article notes again that "the state," as in the DA, assigned a cause of death. A DA is not a medical examiner. The DA overstepped massively. [/quote]

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