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• Position: STATELINE - Criminal prosecution of pregnant women using illegal drugs in Tennessee - Brief article

Tennessee has passed a new law authorizing criminal prosecution of women whose illegal drug use may have harmed their unborn children. Under the law, suspicious miscarriages, stillbirths and infants with birth defects are grounds for possible criminal assault charges carrying prison sentences of up to 15 years. Tennessee, the first to state with such a law, has a high number of babies born with drugs in their systems...