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MrV - It doesn't matter. The investigation concluded it was not caused by cocaine use.
Please. People of your ilk would like to see women have fewer rights than a clump of a dozen cells. You're perfectly ok with convicting a woman of murder for a stillbirth even with NO evidence it was caused by any activity of the woman. In the case of the third woman, there was no evidence of any chemical use at all. You're also ok with locking away the mentally ill.
EDIT: What? That's an entirely different woman from the one in the OP. She even lives in a different state.
Excuse me? People if my "Ilk"? What's that supposed to mean? I'm a "Conservative" so you think I have some neanderthal view that women are inferior? That women deserve to be treated as lesser humans? You base this on what? That I don't support abortion?
I'm flat out ****ing offended by your ignorance frankly.
Oh, and PS, that is the same woman, and YES she admitted ina court of LAW she was GUILTY of using Meth. Or can't you read?
Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges | World news | The GuardianIn Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state's "chemical endangerment" law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes.
Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way. During her pregnancy her foetus was diagnosed with possible Down's syndrome and doctors suggested she consider a termination, which Kimbrough declined as she is not in favour of abortion.
The baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth.
Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with "chemical endangerment" of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied.
"That shocked me, it really did," Kimbrough said. "I had lost a child, that was enough."
She now awaits an appeal ruling from the higher courts in Alabama, which if she loses will see her begin a 10-year sentence behind bars. "I'm just living one day at a time, looking after my three other kids," she said. "They say I'm a criminal, how do I answer that? I'm a good mother.
Northwest Alabama woman pleads guilty in death of her baby by using meth before his birth | al.comAmanda Helaine Borden Kimbrough entered the plea Wednesday. She accepted a plea deal after prosecutors finished presenting their case during her trial in Colbert County, the TimesDaily in Florence reported.
A judge sentenced the 30-year-old Russellville woman to 10 years in prison on a charge of chemical endangerment of a child. She could have been sentenced to life imprisonment without the plea deal.
Timmy Wayne Kimbrough lived for only a few minutes after being born in April 2008.