Reposted by Beza Merid
“The dragnet now reaches far beyond the crack-era stereotype, ensnaring women across racial and class lines. But the underlying premise remains the same: Alleged risk to a fetus can be used to justify state scrutiny of the person carrying it.”
themarshallproject.org
How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights
Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.