{"id":128297,"date":"2015-10-12T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-dark-side-of-cocaine-mom-laws.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:14:13","slug":"the-dark-side-of-cocaine-mom-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-dark-side-of-cocaine-mom-laws.html","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of &quot;cocaine mom&quot; laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people would probably gut-agree that if you have a pregnant woman who is abusing her body (and the fetus within) through drug use, &quot;something oughta be done.&quot; But the experience with &quot;cocaine mom&quot; laws demonstrate that this quickly turns into a Zero Tolerance <i>Handmaid&#39;s Tale<\/i> type of situation, where (properly) informing a doctor of <i>past<\/i> drug use can lead to incarceration &quot;for the sake of the baby&quot; and, ironically, even worse pre-natal treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: if you teach addict (let alone someone who has previously been addicted or abusive of drugs) that talking honestly to your doctor while seeking prenatal care can lead to jail &#8212; what sort of behavior are you incenting? If you said, &quot;Lying to the doctor or not seeking care at all,&quot; then you see the dilemma, because that&#39;s <i>not<\/i> in the best interest of anyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/10\/a-win-against-prenatal-protection-laws-in-wisconsin\/410131\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/iUPgs50wy3lJV9QvfeIQyp5jwDcgd5bqHgf0lIr0BaBex8ii4pPTNnc9CzKywcuq9BSMMddHkzCVqOf53UVPi63vZVZF9T-FXaAPWRHsxTZbE8jf69ctT9d9wFv9WCc29Ke107cBWVps=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/10\/a-win-against-prenatal-protection-laws-in-wisconsin\/410131\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>The High Stakes of Wisconsin&#8217;s Fetal-Protection Law &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA Wisconsin mother, imprisoned to protect her fetus, fought back in federal court&mdash;and won.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g3ZQv1Lj14T'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people would probably gut-agree that if you have a pregnant woman who is abusing her body (and the fetus within) through drug use, &quot;something oughta be done.&quot; But the experience with &quot;cocaine mom&quot; laws demonstrate that this quickly turns into a Zero Tolerance Handmaid&#39;s Tale type of situation, where (properly) informing a doctor of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-dark-side-of-cocaine-mom-laws.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The dark side of &quot;cocaine mom&quot; laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,371,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-war-on-drugs","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4094,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/06\/enforcement_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":128297,"position":0},"title":"Enforcement","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Feb-03 11:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some good observations here on the war on drugs, to wit, the DEA claiming success because it's changed the rules by which success is measured. 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