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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Assuming the substances they used are legal they wouldn't be charged with the use of those substances. They can use those substances without infraction. The infraction would be that they got pregnant. Do you want to make pregnancy a crime?

Drinking alcohol is legal and driving is legal. Drinking a tiny bit of alcohol before driving to the point it probably won't negatively impact your driving and put others at risk is legal. Getting completely shitfaced and driving is illegal. Just replace driving with pregnancy and I'm asking if there should be legal consequences for a situation where a pregnant woman drinks heavily enough that her child is given a life long impairment.

If they were abstinent it seems unlikely they would be pregnant. Or is this meant to indicate a lack of abstinence?

NAS is something the baby is born with, effectively it means that because of the mother's drug habits the baby is literally born addicted to drugs and goes through painful and sometimes even life threatening withdrawal after being physically separated from their drug supply (mom). The long term effects aren't as well understood but mostly because if a baby is born with NAS chances are their home life is going to be full of other horrible things and when they come out all screwed up as older children and teens it's hard to say which negative causes them to end up like that.

No it doesn't.

If that's your opinion, well enough, but I have to ask at what point does the personhood and right to not suffer unwarranted harm of a baby come into being in your opinion?

If a heavily pregnant woman, far enough along that the baby could hypothetically survive outside the womb, physically assaulted herself or purposely ingested poison in such a way that her baby was born with crippling injuries/illness would you consider that perfectly acceptable since the baby was still inside her body at the time?