Pregnant Women's Rights Under Attack? Legislation, Conference Address Concerns
Pregnant women's rights under attack? Legislation, conference address concerns
Seventeen states consider substance abuse during pregnancy to be child abuse under child-welfare statutes, according to a report by the Guttmacher Institute. Three of those states — Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota — allow pregnant women to be …
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Kentucky addicted babies increasing despite pain-pill crackdown
Williams, who abused pain pills throughout the 2009 pregnancy, had passed her addiction to her newborn daughter. Trinity was her second child; she used drugs during her first and third pregnancies too, but those babies were not born dependent.
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Everyday Hero: Prenatal care for teens without judgement
Libby Sabourin, 18, knows what it's like to be judged because of a pregnancy. Like Westfall, got pregnant at 16 and was dealing with drug abuse at the time. But when she first discovered she was pregnant Westfall said going to a clinic was uncomfortable.
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The Effects of Drug Abuse During Pregnancy — View the infographic as a flat image here: http://www.12keysrehab.com/blog/this-is-your-baby-on-drugs-infographic Did you know that over 176200 babies in th…
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