{"id":976,"date":"2004-06-18T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/prenatal_care\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T17:07:57","slug":"prenatal_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/prenatal_care\/","title":{"rendered":"Prenatal Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas woman becomes the first to be prosecuted under a law against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillonet.com\/stories\/061204\/new_twindrugs.shtml\">delivery of marijuana to a minor . . . in her womb<\/a>.  The statute provides for a punishment of two to twenty years in prison.<br \/>\nA couple questions about this:<br \/>\n(1)  If the state is pursuing an objective of protecting the health of &#8220;an unborn child at every state of gestation from fertilization until birth,&#8221; does it also criminalize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/od\/oc\/media\/fact\/smokpreg.htm\">tobacco smoking<\/a>?<br \/>\n(2)  Is imprisoning a newborn&#8217;s mother really in the child&#8217;s best long-term interest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/prenatal_care\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Prenatal Care\"><p>A Texas woman becomes the first to be prosecuted under a law against delivery of marijuana to a minor . . . in her womb. The statute provides for a punishment of two to twenty years in prison. A couple questions about this: (1) If the state is pursuing an objective of protecting the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}