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A day after she gave birth in 2006, Tiffany Hitson, 20, sat on her front porch crying, barefoot and handcuffed. A police officer hovered in the distance.

Ms. Hitson’s newborn daughter had traces of cocaine and marijuana in its system, and the young woman, baby-faced herself, had fallen afoul of a tough new state law intended to protect children from drugs, and a local prosecutor bent on pursuing it. She made arrangements for the baby’s care, and headed off to a year behind bars.

“I couldn’t believe it,” recalled Ms. Hitson, who was released in November after spending much of the first year of her daughter’s life at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama.

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A woman's body is a woman's body and she has a right to do what she wants with it, whether we view it as undesirable activity or not. Something somewhat similiar (more from a rehabilitation perspective than a punishment perspective) was attempted in Manitoba, but was rightly overturned by the Supreme Court.

I remember studying that case in Social Work school and our class was divided over the issue. I think it is clear and agree with the Supreme Court decision.

[ 28 March 2008: Message edited by: Ghislaine ]

[ 28 March 2008: Message edited by: Ghislaine ]