To say this story is shocking.

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abcnews.go.com/US/woman-charged-controversial-law-criminalizes-drug-pregnancy/story?id=24542754

A young mother has been arrested because her baby tested positive for meth.

I always believe that these women who use drugs during pregnancy should be helped and supported to get them off the drugs and get them into education in order for them to be the best mothers possible.

Arresting this mothers and punishing her for up to a year in prision I believe is a waste of time.

That is correct, but only is the mother can't get off the drugs

Well perhaps a programme will be made available to her in prison. As I said, she could have been imprisoned for up to a year for possession of meth anyway. Do you think she should be treated differently just because she is a woman with a child? (even if that child has been taken into care)

Charge her on possession of meth, not on assult of a newborn baby.

She took meth 3 days before she gave birth. This was a full term baby. Worries about this influencing legal abortions seem unfounded given that she would not have been able to obtain a legal abortion at that stage of pregnancy anyway. (Health reasons aside)

I don't find it shocking, it find it pretty inevitable. People are incredibly frustrated by addict mothers.

I have lots of addicts in the family especially meth users at least one of whom was still using up to 6 months pregnant. the kind "Here's a handy rehabilitation programme" approach has been tried for decades. No wonder the authorities are resorting to something else.

Kids affected by feotal narcotics are not easy healthy kids. They are hard work to look after, pull through withdrawal and their carers will be coping with the fall out for the rest of the child's life.

Many US states take a hard li e with narcotic using mothers. Its not uncommon for the child to be taken into care at birth and the parent given one chance to get and stay clean. If they don't manage it the child is ( hopefully) adopted or remains in foster care.