Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union are appealing the conviction of an Easton woman who was accused of endangering a child by using cocaine while she was pregnant.
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Defense attorneys had sought an acquittal, arguing there was never a risk of harm to another person -- because a fetus doesn't meet the definition of a person under state law. But a Talbot County judge ruled that the person who suffered the risk was the baby after it was born.
ACLU attorneys said prosecuting women for their actions during pregnancy is unprecedented elsewhere in Maryland and claim it is an attempt to create a new crime by charging pregnant women for harming their fetuses.
August 20, 2005
ACLU: Drug-using pregnant mom innocent of harming preborn baby, since baby isn't person
The American Civil Liberties Union, champion of depraved worldviews:
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Thanks for bringing these stories to our attention. It's positions like this that are so inhuman, which require me to continue to work against organizations such as NYCLU
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