Smoking by pregnant mothers deserves government intervention
I have written this Blog to draw your attention to a crime committed every day. It is committed by mothers who smoke, drink, and do drugs during their pregnancy. This crime is also committed by people who smoke all kinds of substances around women who are pregnant. Many of the terrible effects on the unborn child can be disastrous. Some effects are known, but many are unknown. I was talking to a lady today who said she smoked marijuana to deal with the pains and nausea of morning sickness. I didn't know what to say. She said she wanted to be prescribed the drug Marinol, which is the pill form of the main ingredient in Marijuana. I think the drug has its place, but I wonder about its effect on a child. She was saying that the doctors were prescribing it to mothers who were suffering from morning sickness. I do not know if this is true. But I do know that the main ingredient has been proven to cause the death of brain cells. The unborn are being forced to take drugs against their will. I request the formation of a federal law that makes it illegal for a mother to smoke or ingest any drug during the term of her pregnancy, including drinking and smoking cigarettes. I request that it become federal law that it be illegal to smoke any drug including cigarettes in the presence of a pregnant person by any person. I request that a ward be created for pregnant perpetrators of these crimes that they would be forced to live in for the term of their pregnancy. Constantly being monitored for any further abuses to the child, and that the local department of youth and family services step in and monitor the care of the child till the parent is deemed responsible for the care of the child. If they are not deemed responsible, the current law would prevail to those circumstances. And that a federal effort be made to ID all pregnant women and create a department that would oversee and enforce these rules. I request that stiff penalties also be created to discipline offenders who smoke drugs including tobacco in the presence of children or pregnant people. This is a very sad crime made by people, many of whom smoke their drugs including tobacco in the presence of pregnant people and children, or pregnant people who ingest drugs including tobacco and alcohol knowingly, without regret, taking the risk of destroying an innocent child's life. This should be a crime enforceable with stiff penalties to the perpetrator. If a person will neglect children this way, How many other ways are they capable of neglecting children?
Please email this to as many people as you know and any government officials. The word needs to get out and the children need to be protected.
Posted by polar1ak
at 5:19 PM YDT