This week discussion forum requires you to answer the following questions:
1. Should mothers receive prosecution for prenatal damage to the fetus?
2. Should mothers that use drugs during pregnancy face criminal prosecution?
3. Would the chances of prosecution keep pregnant women from seeking prenatal care and/or delivering the baby in a hospital setting?
Instructions for the second part: Below you will find a link to a true story about a young woman named Jennifer Johnson. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/news/mother-cleared-of-passing-drug-to-babies.html
Below you will find a link to another story where the National Institutes of Health released a study that showed that maternal cocaine use was not as bad for babies. In the second link, the New York Times provided additional support to the study.
1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11489591
2) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27coca.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
