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Old Dec 6, 2005 | 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Wow Civic


ACLU Defends Woman who is guilty of doing cocaine while she is pregnant and having a baby boy who had high amounts of cocaine in his blood. (Not only will the baby be addicted but it is child endangerment)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/loc...ocal-headlines
The link you posted goes nowhere, but I found the story I'm pretty sure you referring to. At issue is that the woman, Kelly Lynn Cruz, was prosecuted for reckless endangerment. By definition, the law only applies to people. The prosecutor, or whoever was pulling his strings, was trying to get a fetus to be defined as a person by using this section of the law. Its a sleazy, sneaky way to try to criminalize abortion by proxy of the other law.

The ACLU isn't defending cocaine use while pregnant here; they're defending a woman's right to choose.

You have posted a bunch of interesting links here that I would like to respond to, but tonight I'm working on a 20 page paper for marketing class. This will have to wait until the weekend.
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