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Simplepowa
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Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law
#20984587 - 12/16/14 01:04 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law Print Email
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JOHN HART — State Journal
Tamara Loertscher, 30, of Medford, is comforted by Sara Ainsworth, director of legal advocacy for the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, during a press conference in Madison on Thursday. Loertscher is the plaintiff in a lawsuit to be filed with the U.S. District Court in Madison that challenges the constitutionality of a state law that allows officials to detain pregnant women suspected of alcohol or drug use. December 12, 2014 5:00 am • By Dee J. Hall | Wisconsin State Journal Related Documents Alicia Beltran's 2013 lawsuit Study: Pregnant women detained for 'fetal protection' Lawsuit challenges state's fetal protection law
MILWAUKEE (AP) | A pregnant Wisconsin woman has filed a federal challenge to the state’s fetal protection law after being confined in a drug t… Read more
A Medford woman plans to challenge the state’s 16-year-old “cocaine mom” law after she was jailed after acknowledging past drug use while seeking a pregnancy test and medical help for depression and a thyroid problem.
The lawsuit, to be filed in U.S. District Court in Madison, will be brought by the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, the Carr Center for Reproductive Justice and the Perkins Coie law firm in Madison. They contend Wisconsin’s law allowing authorities to detain and force treatment on pregnant women suspected of drug or alcohol use is unconstitutional.
The pending lawsuit and a related challenge to an administrative finding of child maltreatment by the Taylor County Department of Human Services will be filed soon, Sara Ainsworth, director of legal advocacy for the national pregnancy advocacy group, said Thursday. A message left with Taylor County Human Services Director Amber Fallos was not returned.
The lawsuit is being brought on behalf of Tammy Loertscher, 30, who was detained and jailed in July under a 1998 Wisconsin law that the advocacy group said is one of the most sweeping “fetal protection” laws in the nation. Wisconsin’s law allows the state to detain and force a pregnant woman into treatment if she “habitually lacks self-control” by using drugs or alcohol, creating “a substantial risk” to the physical well-being of her unborn child.
At least 15 pregnant Wisconsin women were detained between 1973 and 2005 for allegedly endangering their fetuses or newborns by using drugs or alcohol, or refusing medical recommendations, according to a comprehensive review of cases in 2013 by the advocacy group.
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Re: Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law [Re: Simplepowa]
#20984627 - 12/16/14 01:14 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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id perform forced abortions and sterilizations.
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Re: Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law [Re: sprinkles]
#20985142 - 12/16/14 03:36 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's her body until the baby is born it's just a varmint.
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Re: Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law [Re: Konyap]
#20995375 - 12/18/14 05:42 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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There is no proof cocaine harms babies. Maybe low birth weight, that is it, it is not worse than smoking cigs. Crack babies are a racist myth.
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Konyap

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Re: Medford woman to challenge state's 'cocaine mom' law [Re: my3rdeye]
#20997666 - 12/19/14 05:02 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
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