How do we allow this to happen? Pregnant woman detained for duration.

[Stonepounder]

Land of the not so free and the not so brave.

A 28-year-old woman goes to a doctor seeking prenatal care for her (wanted) pregnancy. During the appointment she discusses with the doctor that she has had an addiction problem with prescription painkillers, but that she is confident that with the incentive of the wanted pregnancy she will be able to stay off the drugs. What happens next is mind boggling.

Should Pregnant Drug Users Be Treated Like Criminals?

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/should-pregnant-drug-users-be-treated-like-criminals.html#ixzz2h9zzQk00

The doctor notified the authorities and the prospective mother has been locked up for the duration of her pregnancy under Wisconsin's 'a fetus is a person from the moment of conception' law. The fetus has more rights than the mother.

<sigh>

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. omg

[Dawson Leery]

2. "Christian" Taliban.

[get the red out]

3. That's exactly what it is!

I had one of them claim to me that they did not seek to control women's health care choices, well if a woman can't discuss her health with her Doctor without becoming a criminal they have done nothing but control a woman's health care choices. In some cases she has the choice of jail or being honest with her doctor.

I really hate the Christo-ban.

[MindPilot]

4. A Handmaid's Tale is becoming reality!

Over the past couple years I have learned that you need to be careful what you say even to a doctor or psychiatrist. One wrong word can seriously mess up your life.

[MadrasT]

5. The Handmaid's Tale has come to the USA for real.

Heaven help us.

[redqueen]

6. That was my first thought, too.

The trend continues...

[uppityperson]

7. K&r and another link.

http://advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/blog/2013/10/first_fed_challenge_to_pregnan.php

[bettyellen]

8. a lot of people here condemned that woman for wanting to drink a glass of wine, and this is what

happens when you do not get why that restricting her is a problem- women are not fucking incubators for us to control.

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. National Advocates for Pregnant Women has been working this issue for years.

There's a link to them just above.

[bettyellen]

12. thank you, Comrade!

[redqueen]

26. +1

Not one millimeter of ground can be ceded on this issue.

A woman's body is her own. Full stop.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Handmaid's tale. Exactly.

This is what happens when people feel they are entitled to tell others what to do with their bodies.

[bettyellen]

13. there ought to be a law against prosecuting people who self report abuse while asking for help.

because no woman is going to seek help.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Yeah, another in the long line of maybe-intended-maybe-unintended shit consequences.

It's too bad because Wisconsin has a lot of Progressives.

I agree, this is absolutely not the way to deal with this situation.

[bettyellen]

16. Doctors should be banding together and refusing to do this. It has to be incredibly unhealthy to

incarcerate the Mom. That would make her (or any of us) want to do drugs even more. And yeah, you can get them in jail.

[davidn3600]

18. The system doesn't know how to do that

Mental health and addiction assistance in this nation is a disgrace. It has been for many years. No one wants to fund those kind of assistance programs. So the only thing the government knows how to do is throw people in a cell. And America doesn't have a problem with that because we are a country that LOVES it's prisons. We got more than anyone else in the world and more people in them than anyone else in the world.

Many people are making a lot of money on the war on drugs. It's turned our justice system into a profitable industry of its own.

[bettyellen]

21. We have become such a heartless society. It is sick that the only job expansion we are seeing

is prison workers and cannon fodder. Very sad situation.

[Sissyk]

10. This is sick!

The doctor notified the authorities and the prospective mother has been locked up for the duration of her pregnancy under Wisconsin's 'a fetus is a person from the moment of conception' law. The fetus has more rights than the mother.

That is mind blowing to me. They are treating this woman like an animal over nothing more than a bunch of cells.

[riderinthestorm]

14. Despicable and frightening. K&R nt

[cbayer]

17. Withdrawal from opiates during pregnancy places the fetus at extremely high risk.

I'm not defending her being arrested, but if she refused to be hospitalized for a very tightly controlled detox and said she wanted to continue the pregnancy, what would you do?

[Demo_Chris]

19. Interesting point. For some reason I suspected that there might be more to this story. That said...

Given the chance this is exactly the kind of thing Social Cons would love to impose.

[bettyellen]

22. They HAVE imposed it in Wisconsin. It's going to result in women lying to their doctors- and many

more unhealthy pregnancies than it will ever "help" with incarceration. But, as long as they get to bust a woman or two.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. What would I do??

I would let her know her options. I would offer (note the word here is offer) to assist her in detox. If that didn't work, I would let her go. That's all you can and should be allowed to do.

If she refuses, she refuses. She is in charge of her own body.

[Sheldon Cooper]

24. I'd let her refuse the detox and continue the pregnancy.

Why on earth would anyone else think they have a say in this?

[redqueen]

25. How many other medical conditions warrant imprisoning people?

Just curious.

As for your question, it is her risk to take. Physicians advise, they don't imprison. (Unless you're a pregnant woman, apparently, then all bets are off.)

[Mariana]

20. So pregnant women have to fear being honest with their doctors.

That'll make everything better.

[bettyellen]

27. amazing this gets so little interest here.... especially since we have so many libertarian types...

they want to be free to have guns, and don't care if you lock up women.
Gee, thanks guys!