Should Alcoholic pregnant women be prosecuted for Child Abuse as it may result in FAS?
Yes. Alcoholic women do not start drinking alcholically in pregnancy. They were drinking hard before they got pregnant. Female alcoholics should be told not to get pregnant and given effective birth control. If we have to pay addicts and chronic alcoholics to be sterilized we should do that. Pregnant alcoholics should be encouraged to abort. If someone is it court ordered treatment, I have no problem testing them for pregnancy and taking them into custody if they test positive. We will never order someone to terminate a pregnancy, but we can offer a great deal of incentive to women to be responsible with contraception and emergency contraception. You can’t legislate common sense or normal psycological development.
I think women who are going to give birth to children should be responsible for taking care of it before it’s born. I’ve known women who have abused prescription drugs and various other substances while pregnant. The children were born underweight and sometimes worse as a result. One actually had her baby taken away from her and full custody went to the child’s grandparents, but there were no criminal charges and I think there should have been. I also worked at a tattoo shop/head shop two years ago and they sold pipes for smoking Meth ( which I find disgusting ). A pregnant women came in to purchase one and I refused her and was severely yelled at by my bosses who both had a child. I was repulsed. My bosses claimed it was up to her to do ” the right thing”.Yes, it’s her body–however, at that point in her pregnancy it was no longer a zygote and would have to deal with the consequences of it’s mothers actions for the rest of it’s life possibly. If you decided you are going to have a bab
