It should be illegal for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol or smoke cigs while pregnant, and grounds for removal by child services.
Some may claim this isn’t unpopular, but I think it is. Bodily autonomy, no one owning a pregnant woman’s body (not even the fetus growing inside of it), the fact that you can’t even file a CPS report for a follow up after the birth of a child to a woman who drank like a fish her whole pregnancy, or a woman who delivered prematurely due to their nicotine addiction.
If you are pregnant and intend on carrying and birthing that child, you have a moral and ethical responsibility to make sure that baby is born as healthy as possible. It should be illegal for any woman to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes while she’s growing a developing fetus.
It should be punishable as felony child abuse or neglect if the child is born with any deformities or developmental issues related to the substance abuse (this is provable with medical expertise), and charged as a misdemeanor if not. At the very least, CPS should be allowed to intervene before the child is born, and remove the child upon birth.
Edit: For those who keep bring it up, no, weening after a few weeks when you know you’re pregnant would not be ground for removal in this scenario. This applies to those who have no intent of quitting, and exhibit no attempt at quitting either behaviors. Common sense would still be applied by CPS.
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