Addiction is an illness. Pregnant women struggling with addiction need access to prenatal care and treatment, not jail time. Addiction isn’t a choice, it’s a health problem…. Rich people can access medical care. Poor people go to jail.
Cherisse Scott, head of SisterReach, a Tennessee reproductive rights group that is lobbying the state’s GOP governor, Bill Haslam, to veto a bill that would allow criminal assault charges to be filed against women who use illegal drugs during pregnancy.
More on the bill can be found at rhrealitycheck and the NYTimes.