Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Casandra Gethers of Hollywood, Fla., gave birth to her second cocaine- addicted infant, she was arrested in February and charged with child abuse. Her baby was placed in foster care...
...Pamela Rae Stewart spent a week in a San Diego jail in 1986 on charges that she had failed to provide for her baby by defying her doctor's advice to stop using street drugs during pregnancy. Stewart's child was born brain damaged and died six weeks later. The charges were eventually dropped...
...more likely to be born prematurely or to die before birth. They tend to be abnormally small and face an increased risk of deformities or crib death. Moreover, there are strong indications that all these babies suffer some form of neurological damage. Says Darron Castiglione, supervisor of the child-abuse division of the Hollywood, Fla., police department: "These infants don't have a chance in life. They will never be right, never be whole people, through no fault of their own. These babies can only blame the mother...
...mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious legal obligations, how could she at the same time have the right to abort the fetus...
...criticism of his actions, Winnebago County state's attorney Paul Logli, who is prosecuting the manslaughter and drug charges against Green, stands by his policy. Says he: "This is not a fetal-rights case or a pro-choice case or a pro-life case. We're dealing with a child who was born and lived two days...