I'm sure a lot of you have seen this "controversial" article about a mom who was charged with assault against her unborn child for doing meth while pregnant. And I read the article and the controversy over it is that people think that if women are charged with assault for doing drugs while pregnant that less women will come forward to try to get help.
I don't see how punishing a woman for harming her child during birth is any different than punishing a woman for harming her child after birth. Either way the woman is consciously harming her child. She should be punished. Is it going to scare off other mothers doing narcotics while pregnant? Who knows. But should that stop them from arresting women known to be endangering their pregnant child? NO.
There are going to be people who no matter what will do drugs while pregnant. Some will come forward for help, some wont. If the woman comes forward asking for help I think things should be given help and not arrested only if they follow through with the program given to them. If a woman comes in who is in labor whose newborn is born addicted to drugs then hell yeah arrest that bitch!
Do you know how many women are out there that would kill to get pregnant!? Tons! Somehow the people who are least deserving of babies always seem to the be ones who pop out a ton of children destined for a life like their parents.
I was one of the people who looked at other pregnant women and hated them for their carefree attitude toward pregnancy. I knew a girl who was pregnant the same time I was pregnant with Tyler. She started drinking and smoking and whatever else she could because she said she was going to abort the baby anyways so why not do what she could to cause a miscarriage? She had already had at least 2 abortions. 2 abortions! I was like are you kidding me!?! Here I am praying to a God I have barely believed in since I was 5 in hopes of being able to carry a full term baby with no problems.
Then its not like the problems ended the second we had the baby either. We were in the hospital for 3 or 4 days while she probably walked out of their the next day (yes she wound up keeping the baby). Of course her baby had no problems while I was only allowed to hold my baby to feed him and I didn't drink or do drugs or anything while pregnant. Now isn't that some shit? I had to hope for a healthy baby while she got to hope that hers magically disappeared and when it didn't she got to take her home with not a care in the world. Man what I would have given to be able to be so care free during my pregnancy. And as if the first pregnancy for me wasn't bad enough the second one was an even bigger nightmare.
So if someone were to ask me how I felt about arresting women for using drugs while pregnant I'd say throw her ass in jail. If she could be so careless with her life and an innocents than she'd deserve to rot in there. And I'd hope that while she was having her with drawls in prison someone would be there to say you deserve this because right now your baby is hooked up to a machine where they try to wean your baby off the drugs you put into his or her system.
Some might say I'm cruel for thinking this way but put yourself in my shoes. You think I want to watch someone throw theirs and their kids life away because of stupid choices they made while I have no control over the fate of mine and mine children's lives? Don't you think I would trade places with that person if I could? I would love to be in the position where the power was in my hands. Like should I do drugs today or let my kid have a healthy pregnancy? Yes I know their is more to being addicted than that but they made the choice to start the drug in the first place. They are making the choice to continue doing drugs and to not get help. They are making the choice to potentially kill an innocent life. Why should we take this crime against innocent unborn children lightly while we fight for the rights of unborn children from abortions? How is this any different?
There are going to be people who no matter what will do drugs while pregnant. Some will come forward for help, some wont. If the woman comes forward asking for help I think things should be given help and not arrested only if they follow through with the program given to them. If a woman comes in who is in labor whose newborn is born addicted to drugs then hell yeah arrest that bitch!
Do you know how many women are out there that would kill to get pregnant!? Tons! Somehow the people who are least deserving of babies always seem to the be ones who pop out a ton of children destined for a life like their parents.
I was one of the people who looked at other pregnant women and hated them for their carefree attitude toward pregnancy. I knew a girl who was pregnant the same time I was pregnant with Tyler. She started drinking and smoking and whatever else she could because she said she was going to abort the baby anyways so why not do what she could to cause a miscarriage? She had already had at least 2 abortions. 2 abortions! I was like are you kidding me!?! Here I am praying to a God I have barely believed in since I was 5 in hopes of being able to carry a full term baby with no problems.
Then its not like the problems ended the second we had the baby either. We were in the hospital for 3 or 4 days while she probably walked out of their the next day (yes she wound up keeping the baby). Of course her baby had no problems while I was only allowed to hold my baby to feed him and I didn't drink or do drugs or anything while pregnant. Now isn't that some shit? I had to hope for a healthy baby while she got to hope that hers magically disappeared and when it didn't she got to take her home with not a care in the world. Man what I would have given to be able to be so care free during my pregnancy. And as if the first pregnancy for me wasn't bad enough the second one was an even bigger nightmare.
So if someone were to ask me how I felt about arresting women for using drugs while pregnant I'd say throw her ass in jail. If she could be so careless with her life and an innocents than she'd deserve to rot in there. And I'd hope that while she was having her with drawls in prison someone would be there to say you deserve this because right now your baby is hooked up to a machine where they try to wean your baby off the drugs you put into his or her system.
Some might say I'm cruel for thinking this way but put yourself in my shoes. You think I want to watch someone throw theirs and their kids life away because of stupid choices they made while I have no control over the fate of mine and mine children's lives? Don't you think I would trade places with that person if I could? I would love to be in the position where the power was in my hands. Like should I do drugs today or let my kid have a healthy pregnancy? Yes I know their is more to being addicted than that but they made the choice to start the drug in the first place. They are making the choice to continue doing drugs and to not get help. They are making the choice to potentially kill an innocent life. Why should we take this crime against innocent unborn children lightly while we fight for the rights of unborn children from abortions? How is this any different?
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