Via Blogging Baby, comes this news out of Eastern Iowa, Pregnant woman charged with child endangerment for drinking. Let's see, she was not merely drinking but falling-down drunk, and was also charged with prostitution and public intoxication. The county attorney plans to request that child endangerment charges be dropped, since "under Iowa law, a fetus is not a person until it has been separated and been born from the mother and taken a breath independent of the mother, period."
Wonder if it will show up in the Express police blotter.
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Back in the '50's, '60's, and '70's it was not medically frowned upon when women smoked like chimneys and sipped a little while pregnant.
It seems like the drunkenness is the symptom of a bigger problem.
Yeah, my Aunt's doctor recommended a glass of wine before bed to help her sleep at night. And my grandmother smoked & drank through 6 pregnancies. But this woman obviously had other issues.
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