State Confines Pregnant Women With Prior Drug Addiction
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A Wisconsin woman is challenging a 15 yo. law that can confine a pregnant woman who has a drug addiction and refuses treatment. Alicia Beltran, 28, told her doctor about a pill addiction that she had beaten the year before and then refused to start taking an anti-addiction drug. The next thing she knew, her fetus was assigned a lawyer and she was forced to enter a 78-day rehab stay. You can’t see it without a microscope, but the government brands ‘Property Of The United States’ on your uterus during every trip to the gyno.
Read more at nytimes.com
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