Chapter 5.C.3: Pregnant Women and Drug Use

For more on pregnancy, substance use, and criminalization see Nora D. Volkow, Wilson M. Compton & Eric M. Wargo, The Risks of Marijuana Use During Pregnancy, 317 JAMA 129 (2017); Michele Goodwin, Precarious Moorings: Tying Fetal Drug Law Policy to Social Profiling, 42 Rutgers L. J. 659 (2011); Michelle Goodwin, Prosecuting the Womb, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1657 (2008); Lynn M. Paltrow & Jeanne Flavin, Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005, 38 J. Health Politics, Pol’y and L. 299 (2013); Dara E. Purvis, The Rules of Maternity, 84 Tenn. L. Rev. 367 (2017); Myrisha S. Lewis, Criminalizing Substance Abuse and Undermining Roe v. Wade: The Tension between Abortion Doctrine and the Criminalization of Prenatal Substance Abuse, 23 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 185 (2017); April Cherry, Shifting Our Focus from Retribution to Compassion, 28 J. L. & Health 6 (2015); Andrew J. Weisberg & Frank E. Vandervort, A Liberal Dilemma: Respecting Autonomy While Also Protecting Inchoate Children from Prenatal Substance Abuse, 24 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 659 (2016).