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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that people are freaked out but I also think there needs to be some common sense here. No, you shouldn’t do drugs while pregnant, because it can impact that child for the rest of their life. It shouldn’t be anything goes, and obviously there’s a big difference between eating sushi and doing meth.

FWIW, I think men should also be held accountable. Like if they expose a pregnant woman to an STD. [/quote]

There is no child.  There was a miscarriage.   There is no evidence that the miscarriage was due to her drug use.  [b]The medical examiner did not declare her drug use to be a cause.[/b]  [/quote]

THIS. The bold. The district attorney assigned a cause of death. The medical examiner did NOT say the drug use was the cause of the miscarriage but did say that other factors like genetic anomaly could have been causes. Yet the district attorney is declaring this woman's drug use murdered the child.

People should be "freaked out," PP above, that a lawyer is acting as if he or she has the right to determine a cause of death and then press charges based on that. We should freak out that it's somehow OK for a medical examiner to be overridden in the way that it's happened here. Because, precedent. And if you all think that "Well, she was a drug abuser, and I'm not, so, whatever...." you are extremely short-sighted indeed. Are you really fine with the idea of medical examiners' conclusions being brushed aside like this? [/quote]

This. More evidence of the government getting inside my doctor’s office with me where they do NOT belong. This is a giant slippery slope. They go after poor women with all the “bad choices! Drugs’ But the b-a-b-i-e-s,” and before we know it, the power of state and federal governments will completely take over our bodies. And I wonder what else they will try to require? Stay at home so you don’t endanger your fetus at your manual labor job. Or white collar jobs can be stressful, so you should leave that one, too. Had a glass of wine? Drove a car? Went on a business trip and plane had turbulence? Women make too many risky decisions with a fetus inside - the government must take over. I hate that I’m passing a world to my daughters that feels so bleak and dangerous. [/quote]

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