➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Pregnancy, Drug Use, and Why Prison Is Not the Solution (Opinion)
Huffington Post – April 11, 2016
In New Hampshire, a bill to redefine opioid use or addiction in pregnant women as child abuse is making its way through the legislature, despite vocal objection from the state’s medical community. Much media treatment of this bill and similar bills in other states presumes women are not generally held criminally responsible for terminating?or losing?a pregnancy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-mollmann/pregnancy-drug-use-and-wh_b_9665668.html