From 2015: Alabama resident Casey Shehi is one of many new mothers who have felt the sting of the state’s controversial chemical endangerment law, which gives prosecutors the authority to throw a mom in jail for up to 10 years in order to save her newborn from reckless drug use. MORE: https://bit.ly/2ZNMmpS
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I hope all the pregnancy police in the comment section either face or have a loved one face the barbaric laws these women face. A fetus is not a legally protected person. The second you say it is, with abortion bans and feticide laws, you can surveille and arrest women for doing anything and everything that anyone things could harm a fetus.
You will be arrested for taking one valium pill…like Casey Shehi was
You will be arrested for being shot…like Marshae Jones was
You will be arrested for tripping down the stairs…like Christine Taylor was
You will be arrested for having a home birth…like Laura Pemberton was
You will be forced to undergo C-sections without your consent…like Rinat Dray was
And last but not least? drumroll
You will be arrested for doing drugs while pregnant when YOU WEREN'T PREGNANT…like Stacey Freeman was
So enjoy pregnancy police! This is the world you asked for!
IF you were so worried about your panic attack causing you to go into labor, why didn't you call a doctor or go to the ER?? If I am worried I am going to go into labor, I would check into hospital. Atleast if you're in hospital, nurses and doctors can monitor your blood pressure, vitals and baby's heart rate and give you a valium (if doctor deems safe) and it would be a legal prescription??? Therefore you'd both be safe, but nope, had a 'panic attack', worried you might go into labor, so you did 'online google search', relying on internet information, decided it was safe enough popped a valium, no sympathy 🙄🙄🙄
Hey so her dad, George Shehi runs Mountain View Hospital in gadsden alabama. is nobody questioning if he gave it to her? for decades that hospital has been ruining, and i mean ruining children. i was there in 2006 when i was 13. i dont know how that place hasn't been investigated.
You know …. I find this whole issue very unsettling and ironic … The laws are so screwed up !… A woman is allowed to abort/kill her baby by having an abortion .. I remember the big “celebration “ that was had in New York when Cuomo put into law that a woman could abort right up to delivery and that they would keep baby comfortable while parents decided whether or not they actually WANTED this innocent little child and if they decided they did not want the baby it would be killed (somehow) and labelled as a late term abortion … Not exactly sure if this IS law yet but it was certainly something that MANY women cheered for … The Empire State Building was lit up in pink with a depiction of kali … Some Indian god or goddess of fertility or something YET NOW these same law makers who could care less about these infant human lives now are soooo concerned about the health and safety of these same children due to a mother using ONE Ativan near the end of her pregnancy (due to her bout of anxiety) when baby is fully developed ! … They want to steal these children for their own reasons … which I won’t elaborate on but I’m sure by now most people know what goes on … Anyway it’s all just about control in the end … It’s a sick world 🙈
Hahaha white
Casey is giving me junkie vibes. The narrators voice is fucking HORRIBLE …..
Meanwhile it’s totally fine for parents to “whoop” their children????
It takes 3 days
Nah- sorry- I don’t feel bad for these women. I was on my back pain meds and found out I was pregnant. I went off of them and went to my prenatal appt because I was bleeding as I was withdrawing and told my doc I went off a pretty high dose of Vicodin’s that I had been on about a year for my broken lower back. . He freaked out and sent me to a methadone clinic. He said it was the law!( that was so weird)
Anyway.. had I tested dirty and I had been tested everyday- I would have lost my son as I should have…now.. that said.. what the hell are doctors doing to people being put on Methadone from prescription pain pills when I had already been off for a week? Granted.. it is too dangerous for the fetus to go thru withdrawal but METHADONE? Ten times stronger and more addictive.. god.. I still want to sue. I was so outraged when I was told it was too dangerous to go off of methadone after I gave birth as it was life threatening withdrawals. BS… it was very bad and thought a few times I was going to die but out of shear hatred for that scary opioid medical system that willing imprisons people I hung in there and after six months I was finally over my withdrawals… they should be lined up and publicly hanged . ( or put on methadone themselves)
Dont GAF what people think. You know what kind of mom you are
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Good about time take those poor babies 👶 from there drug moms
Take drugs while pregnant yes ur born baby will be taken away .If ur a drug addict don't have kids !
This is why when I eventually have children, I will not let them test me out of fear for a false positive test. If they test me without my consent, I will sue them for assault. At least where I am from, I don't think I would face criminal charges though. The worst I could face would maybe be losing my baby but I'm not even sure if they would take it that far here.
I honestly clicked video thinking she was gonna be an anti vaxxer(random: autocorrect changes vaxxer to cancer, accurate). Turns out it was just about a mom who was popping pills days before going into labor and having a baby. No sympathy but for the babies.
well now that we're in 2020, the feminine spirit has become oppresive and humanity is currently dealing with a gender war
she googled which opioids were safe while pregnant? Some people need to be banned from reproducing. Also, normal people don't just have random bottles of pills lying around the house. She's a junkie.
She’s full of shut and she lying!!
This is total bullshit! ! If you use drugs while pregnant you made bad decisions and need them to step in to defend the child !!! Stupid
Of course a drug user wouldn't want the law in place. . .
This law is essential, period 🤷🏽♀️
They really let this girl sit down and tell lie after lie like that on tv?! Like who ok’d this? Not one person stood up and said um….actually no….there is no way IN FUCKING HELL that HALF of ONE Valium would show up WEEKS later. It is literally impossible. My guess is you’re clearly embarrassed that you got arrested at your job and then had your kids taken away. That is YOUR problem. Not your poor innocent childrens’..Really hope that there are the appropriate authorities involved keeping a super close eye on that broad.
It wouldn’t have shown up in a drug test if it were weeks before.. I was addicted to benzos and had to take drug tests and if I didn’t take it two days before it wouldn’t be on the drug test. So she had to be taking it
Sorry , doesn’t matter if it’s a street drug or prescription!!
U realize a drug is a drug!! Unless u have prescription for it… then that is a drug that doesn’t belong to u!!
Why? Why? Why? Do ppl go on this show just to lie! If u were in so much pain you could of taken yourself to the hospital! At least Heather has the decency to accept things how they are make a better life for her and her family and not try to lie like the other lady here boo hoo in like if she was Miss goody-two-shoes!
they take the babies because VERY often the mothers who test positive for Benzo's or Meth are junkies, & its better that a baby who has no idea whats going on be relocated to a healthy caring parent, than living with the junkie that gave birth to them while using drugs during pregnancy. The thinking is that is you are willing to use speed, or heroin, etc while your taking it for you & your baby, youre willing to endanger that child in other ways too. the thing is, if you really took "half a valium" 6 weeks ago, it wont be a problem, because it will be obvious, only junkies need to worry. smarten up dummies.
“My baby was formed and half a Valium wasn’t going to hurt him.” She doesn’t know that—she’s not a physician. Shame on her. That doesn’t give her the right to take someone else’s prescription. She deserved jail.