Hospitals Are Drug Testing Mothers Without Consent, Fueling Family Separations

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This bill “is a clear statement that pregnant people do not deserve to be surveilled or criminalized.”
President & CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt

By junior year of high school, Desseray Wright was already a mother and didn’t expect to become pregnant again so soon. 

The Bronx, New York, teen was juggling raising a toddler and dreaming about becoming a lawyer. Sometimes, she would hang out with her friends and occasionally smoked weed. Then one day, despite still getting her period, she found out she was pregnant. She was more than 24 weeks along — too late to consider an abortion. Because Wright smoked weed for several months into her pregnancy, she told a health care provider during a routine prenatal visit. It would be an admission she’d later regret.