Summary
U.S. hospitals are routinely drug-testing pregnant women and reporting positive results—often triggered by hospital-administered medications like morphine or benzodiazepines—to child welfare agencies.
Mistakes and misinterpretations of these tests have led to investigations, child removals, and trauma for innocent mothers.
A lack of safeguards, reliance on error-prone tests, and policies mandating automatic reporting exacerbate the problem.
Advocates and experts are calling for reform, including limiting unnecessary testing and ensuring results are reviewed before reporting, as these practices disproportionately harm mothers while failing to address actual child abuse risks.
Well, you see, this is in the US. So women have rights and autonomy only on paper. In practice and according to a lot of people, women, specially when pregnant, are mere objects to be treated as cattle. The drug tests are part of the quality assurance. You wouldn’t want damaged goods.
America is so fucked up. I guess they’ll soon be pushing drugs to kids, then have them tested and jail the entire household for illegal drug use. That should solve the
slaveemployment crisis.