A 24-year-old who allegedly used drugs delivered a stillborn baby and is now being held on $200,000 bail.
Lawmakers passed the chemical endangerment law in 2006 to protect small children from fumes and chemicals from home-based meth labs.
District attorneys soon began applying the law to protect the fetuses of women who used various drugs during pregnancy. Justices on the Alabama Supreme Court upheld and affirmed prosecutions of pregnant people in 2013 and 2014.The woman was allegedly using drugs, but people with addiction deserve treatment, not criminalization—and jail is especially
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