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Challenging Report on Pregnancy and Drug Abuse
Charles Marwick
JAMA. 1998;280:1039-1040.
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IMPRISONING pregnant drug abusers is ineffective and unethical and could be challenged on constitutional grounds, say the authors of a new report entitled Ethical and Legal Analyses of Coercive Policies Aimed at Substance Abuse by Pregnant Women. The report, written as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, documents what is currently known about the effect on fetuses of substance abuse by pregnant women and examines the ethical and legal issues associated with criminalizing these women for illicit drug abuse.
"Since 1985, 240 women in 35 states have been criminally prosecuted for using illegal drugs or alcohol during pregnancy," said Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, director of the Program in Bioethics at the Medical University of South Carolina. She spoke at a press conference in Washington, DC, last month to announce the publication of the report, of which she is an author.
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