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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2024
- A group of Massachusetts hospitals will no longer report babies born with drugs in their system to state welfare agencies. Why? Because substance abuse disorders “disproportionately affect black people.” This is absurd-let’s talk about it.
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Not reporting drug addicted babies who are black is profoundly racist and abusive.
Re: "profoundly racist and abusive". I agree with you completely. 😮😢
It’s easier for hospitals to let black babies be born with drugs in their system then doing the right thing. smh
Thank you for expressing that calmly and logically because I am too angry and shocked to find words
When they pass laws and policy like this, for everyone paying attention it’s essentially re-firming stereotypes. “what you thought about these people is correct, we are just going to render the metric that allows you to accurately observe the unsightly statistic to prove the stereotype true totally unusable.”
Nausea-inducing! Absolutely no concern for the babies!
Wait a minute. So they won't protect literal babies who are addicted to drugs. But will take a "transgender" child from a parent if the parent doesn't agree. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
Satanism
Identity politics obviously
the only sense you can get is to admit that they are not well meaning people. It's clear that they are trying to hurt as many children as possible.
@UltimateThanos Honestly, this sht does feel like something out of the Book of Revelations. I remember thinking there's no way that mess can could happen because "we, humans, are not that foolish to do such nonsense these days." I was wrong, and thoroughly so.
It's discrimination that a girl being exposed to a male organ in a female changing room is viewed as a crime. It's just a body part, after all. Is what sone idiot used as a line of defense. We're screwed.
Pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money off trans people. They're just like the dealers who sell to the crackhead moms, except when they do it it's legal.
As a NICU team member, we now have to ask permission to drug test a possibly drug addicted infant. It’s really not protecting the innocent babies 😢
😮😮😮😮 that's so sad! Hospitals know that these babies are suffering!!
How sad , let the victims keep suffering and protect the perpetrators this is sick …. Thank you for being in the NICU you guys are angel 🙏🏻
In today's clown world protecting newborn babies is not as important as virtue signaling.
It is enabling drug using, these people are so short sighted
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As the child of a drug addict who was never caught, I 100000% wish that someone saved me from my situation. I have permanent lifelong damage from being raised by a drug addict. It’s not worth it.
I’m sorry that happened to you. Please speak up as loud and as often on the subject to be a voice for these babies.
I was also born to an addict. I was born with opiate dependency in the 70s. They sent me home with her and I continued to be drugged by her. Peragoric in my bottle. I have so many health problems, I've been on methadone since I was 4. My health, life, destroyed. I'm sorry you went through it too. I don't know your story but people like us need to speak up. Have you heard about "Project Prevention"? It paid addicts and alcoholics to get norplants, IUDs. I volunteered for them. They were destroyed for "targeting black women". Like 85% of their clients were White women.
Dang your pretty tho
@@AlphonsePhoenix...read the room, sloooowpoke 🙄
I’m so sorry 😞 💔
Keep GOD first and positive loving 🥰 people in your space🙏🏾
“People” do not get pregnant: women do. Babies do not abuse themselves by ingesting drugs, in the womb: abusers do. I am so sick of DEI
Even girls under 18 get pregnant and since woman means *adult* human female, they're not women, they're children
the host has no obligation to make a parasite comfortable.
@@DellikkilleDso you can go too?
@@thehat4244 you can try champ ;)
@@DellikkilleD babies are not parasites, but please keep showing off your astounding lack of understanding of basic biology.
What a world we live in where hospitals would rather be politically correct instead of protecting babies. Like, wtf?
Same world we were living in through COVID
I once read people on Reddit comparing a fetus with a parasite... since this day, I gave up... even the most irrational of animals can understand the difference between symbiotic relationship and a parasitic one...
A Zionist occupied world.
Would you be ok if doctors took your blood to check for drugs without consent? Or what about a vaccine without consent?
@@far-middle babies literally can’t consent to anything. What’s your point?
Nurses are mandated reporters. Its ILLEGAL for them not to report this to child protective services!!
CPS is a Federal Agency they take precedence over state mandates, this is the one time I actually appreciate the feds taking point
I hope anyone who is failing to report these is sued and lose their job.
I was a neonatal nurse for 47 years and I took care of my share of addicted babies. If the powers-that-be saw how utterly miserable these poor babies were in the postnatal period, they’d sing a different tune. The babies had feeding difficulties, sleeping issues, and they required drugs themselves to wean them down from what was already in their systems. Very sad situation indeed.
God bless you. Four of my five adopted babies were exposed before birth and needed your help. ❤
The Powers-That-Be do not care in the least. They would stand there with those babies in their arms and cry about how their ideology would cure it all, if only we elect them again. The Powers that be only care about how much power they can get and nothing else. They would happily burn us all to ash if it gave them even just an ounce more power.
Protecting children is not only racist, but also transphobic. Don’t forget that
This law, passed by white liberals, is indeed anti black racism. I think it’s ironic, this video exposes that fact, yet would none of you would ever explicitly state that racist legislation has been passed.
You’re wrong. It’s also homophobic, xenophobic, fatphobic, misogynistic, antisemitic, etc.
Even more evidence that gender ideology is evil.
@@xanander4693 I'm over it...
You're a zionist for saying that!
When the article uses the words “pregnant people” the rest of it shouldn’t be taken seriously at all.
Even girls under 18 get pregnant. Since woman means adult human female, they're not women
I was reading an article on line the other day, and the minute I read "assigned male or female at birth" I discounted everything else in the article.
It should be taken seriously, though, because it's not just a random article about "pregnant people" but, rather, an article about changes to how they handle situations that could have serious consequences down the road.
This is absolute insanity. Now we're gonna protect people of colours from responsibility? Who or what are we serving exactly? Certainly not the future babies of colours who will suffer from it...
Why are you twisting this into something negative about black people? I doubt ANY black people were involved in making this law. White liberals are literally responsible for 90% of the things that infuriate you, yet you fume at black people. Interesting
Been happening for awhile - riots and theft - getting away with still
Who was held "accountable" for inundating those "communities" (according to history) with those substances in the first place? Why are black Americans expected to take responsibility for everything that was deliberately done to them? Seriously?! You guys are truly depraved... Newsflash... According to the data people in a great situation aren't excited to just start a life-changing habit...
Always when I read or hear anyone saying people of color/colour (whatever the heck is right) or "black people" I can't help myself but asking "why?"
First of all we're neither black nor white. We're at max beige and brown. Both colors are on the same spectrum. And guess what...its the same fricking color. The difference is the brightness level, isn't it? So correctly mentioning would be lighter/brighter and darker.
And did you see what I did there? Since the difference isn't the color, it's not only dumb to speak of people of colors, while meaning only people with darker skin tone, it's also misleading because white, or correctly beige, is a color too you know?! And why is it relevant at all? Why don't you or us all just speak of people? That's what's so wrong with Wokeness actually. They speak of white comfort etc. and make themselves guilty of racism right away with that words and thoughts. They say men are toxic and make themselves guilty of sexism as well.
I've said it years ago: Wokeness is nothing but revenge. That's it.
Think about the judiciary, have you ever seen that the traumatized victim of whatever crime you can think of - Determined about the offenders sentence, itself?!
Why the heck are we allowing it then to society and culture/popculture?!
I'm so sorry, I know that part doesn't really fit here in that topic, but I had to say/write it.
Just to make it clear...about the rest I'm with you there. I had a way bigger comment ready when I accidentally hit the wrong spot on my phone and everything disappeared, stupid youtube comment functions...
Anyway, that's why the comment might appear now somewhat...lose or fragmented.😅
Good luck there overseas. Hopefully you will solve your problems soon. I don't even know why I care so much, never really liked the USA as the world's leader. But I can't keep watching the downfall while seeing the rise of China..or even Russia. I wish people all over the world would finally realize in what shape the world is right now.
But anyway, I guess it's none of your business, right?
“We” are serving evil. “We” are serving the devil.
Not everyone deserves to be a parent.
agreed, parenthood is a privilege!
Not everyone is going to be a good parent, but to give the government the authority to pick and choose is folly.
@@adama1294so...dont report the kids to DCF? just leave them in an abusive environment because "the government"?
@tehrockzor1 I don't think that's where that person's comment was going with that. I think all they meant was yeah, not everyone deserves a parent but that doesn't mean we should allow the Government to make laws about who and who shouldn't be allowed to conceive children.
It was an off-subject comment but I don't think they meant that the government shouldn't test these babies and protect them. They were commenting on something else.
Why are those the only options? One answer doesnt fit all, every case should be analysed to determine the outcome its common sense.@@tehrockzor1
People are seriously trying to please others with the price of a fresh human life?? Insanity. 😭
Might as well call it BFM now, because its clearly far more important to protect minority feelings than minority lives.
Please who? Who does this please? Everybody who watches this type of content, I encourage you to actually get some black friends. Survey them, and see how many of them actually support this law (which was passed by deluded white liberals btw)
That's what happens when you don't force Christian values onto people who refuse to accept them in the first place. Chaos and sin spread like the Bubonic Plague.
Dont worry yall could always make more.
@@kaizatengoku3893I hope this is a joke
This is going to effect ALL babies born with drugs in their system! If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime
Remember, it's a choice not a child. They're choosing to have this crack baby. Unless you're willing to shell out another 20% of your income in taxes to pay for the junkie momma's nails you don't get a say.
They are mandated reporters. It isn't legal for them to ignore child abuse like this.
If you change the language then you change the law😢
Excellent point.
They won't call it child abuse, they will frame it as a mothers rights issue. As they have decriminalized many drugs it creates a loophole.
Substance use while pregnant is absolutely child abuse and can cause life-long impairments which need to start being addressed in infancy. This is horrible.
If they acknowledge that, then they'd be forced to admit that abortion is murder... so... because at this point, if mom takes drugs and baby is born, she gets in trouble. If mom takes drugs and aborts the child, she's a okay. Crazy.
Using drugs whilst pregnant is the equivalent to going up to random people and attacking them.
I am trying and failing to get pregnant so I had to give up my ADHD medication.
That's because there is a high risk of giving birth to a baby with organs such as stomach and brain outside their body 🤢.
Being without medication is miserable but absolutely the would be mother's responsibility.
And these women can't even give up their recreational drug habits.
Infuriating
@@Noblebird02 But they didn’t want them so their babies are ‘parasites’ as you’ve claimed in your other comments here, right? “An unwanted baby is a parasite” as you said. Maybe you’re not getting pregnant because you’re an ‘unwanted’ mother. Or should I say- ‘host’?
I have CPTSD and the number of people who have this disorder because their parents were addicts is nothing to scoff at.... No baby should be born with drugs in their system and this should be investigated immediately! This is life-ruining!
But surely that problem will dissolve itself, because abortion bans will make unwantedly pregnant women and girls so happy that they clean up...Now that you made their lives that much easier.
Why would a rape victim forced to give birth in excrucisting pain and with no future perspective or Current Security....want to Take drugs? There will not be an increase of these issues in the future...for sure. Mommyhood is going to make everything ok.
God bless CPTSD is unbeknownst to suitably describe the living circumstance of the average rape/forced birth victim.
Hey. I hope you’re doing OK. I’m so sorry for whatever happened to you.
From Virginia, my daughter (adopted through foster care) was born with meth in her system and was sent home with bio mom…when I got the report I was shocked and disgusted! The system is failing our kids!!
My 3 siblings and I were like your daughter sent home with a drug addicted bio mom and were later brought into foster care. Our foster mother fought the system to keep us together and we we're finally adopted but I suffered the worst I was malnourished and I have many lifelong issues and disabilities due to the neglect I suffered. I don't know if drugs were in our systems at birth but I know she was addicted and smoked to
My wife had an employee whose mom was on drugs while pregnant. It was incredibly sad. This employee was not productive enough to be worth paying minimum wage, but the employee was too smart to qualify for disability. The result was the employee couldn't hold a job, but also had no way to feed herself. The employee ended up moving in with her dad who took care of her like an adult child.
Sounds like she had mental issues, but who wouldn't with a mother on drugs
I wonder if thousands of people with stories like this or stories about themselves, wrote letters to the hospital board, if that would make a difference.
I've never heard anything like this. Makes the drug baby issue even more sad😢
So…they’re passing laws that make it so that if children believe they are the opposite gender and wish to change it, if the parents disagree, that would be considered child abuse/neglect/(+insert other dozens of words to describe a horrible person here)……but parents (women) who *willingly* consumed substances (while pregnant) to such an extent that made their newborn comes into this world with those same substances in their body, fully aware of the risks and consequences…..Now the *actual* abusive and neglectful parents are let go while the ones that have genuine concerns for their children’s wellbeing are…punished and reprimanded….?
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yup, pretty much. upside down clown world for sure. It's sad to see, but this is reality now.
I was about to post the exact same thing. You just explained it alot better than I would've.
Identity politics
Yup. Make it make sense???????????
THERE IS NO LAW that criminalizes parents for NOT doing transgender care for their children. NONE. What the LAW ACTUALLY IS says that PARENTS make health care decisions for their children--includng DENIAL OF CARE DUE to PARENTS RELGION. In all but 2 or 3 states FAITH HEALING is considered "health care" and if a child DIES due to denial of care on parents' religous views--it's NOT considered child neglect or child abuse--which persnally I thin k it should be.
This is absolutely insane as someone who lives in the state area and was born addicted to drugs...is absolutely insane and wrong and horrific
You probably voted for this.
@@UltimateThanos
Not old enough to vote for this dude
Yes! I agree! Innocent babies will indeed become a victim if this keeps going! This is awful!
Do these people realize how evil they are?
Probably so
No
I used to think people who went around claiming the devil this or demonic that, were a little extreme but I'm starting to feel like there's no other explanation.
@@user-tr8fs7lm8rNo people themselves can be selfish and evil enough there is no need to add some outside agency, just look at history from every single place on our planet.
Yes, and they revel in it.
I was told recently by a social worker from CPS that “there’s no way to prevent child abuse” and “if we took custody of children simply for witnessing their parents drug use, every single child would be removed from their home.”
I cannot describe how infuriated I was to hear both statements. This is how these organizations are operating now. They just assume all parents are addicts and exposing their children to drug abuse.
What the hell. Did we go through a wormhole somewhere because this world is ass backwards
I believe we did
Because liberalism took over.
I really believe this woke stuff is being pushed cause the leaders want to tear the world apart and then give a solution to seem like the hero. Idk if I sound crazy but I just can't understand any other reason for these things to be so forced
We did go through a historical "wormhole" in a sense. We rejected the rational and logical principles we discovered in the Enlightment and Renaissance in exchange for the gooey but pleasing emotions of Romanticism.
@@abesapien9930 I hate it
My niece's mom did drugs when she was pregnant, and while my niece is pretty lucky as far as the severity of her issues, she still has health concerns from those drugs as an adult. This is incredibly evil...
After working in a Neonatal ICU as a RN for 15+ years, I have unfortunately seen too many babies suffer through maternally induced drug withdrawal after birth. These babies would cry inconsolably, shake and tremor till sores formed on their skin, sweat for no reason, vomit and horrific diarrhea for weeks, as well as many other things that aren’t externally visible. The pain and suffering they endured is 100% preventable. These mothers, regardless of race, age or social economic status need to be identified, followed and supported for the best infant outcomes. Taking care of a newborn is indescribably hard at times for post-partum women without a substance abuse problem; this is a set up for future tragic events for these children.
There will be one of those legal team commercials for babies born with these drugs that suffered from something in the future and are entitled to compensation.
When that baby turns 18 they should sue the hospital for neglect
Instead of addressing the issue, let's sweep it under the rug. Way to go, human kind!
All because black people might get their feelings hurt 😢
@@kellylyons1038 this is what they want you to think. It's cheaper and easier to blame everything on racism. People buy that excuse
This is the most insane wokeness. They need to get the mother help for drug abuse and not so much put her in jail. The baby needs its mother the first year. If mother don't want to clean herself up. Then prison is the next step to clean her life up.
Put the lawmakers in jail
Ask the kids of addicts if they benefitted from being with their junkie mothers?
@@nixm9093 I certainly wish someone would have done something about mine. I was born opiate dependent, allowed to go home with a junkie who continued to drug me. We can't even report them for doing that to us.
No the mother needs to be clean before she is allowed near her baby. No child needs a druggy mother especially not an infant.
12 year old gets raped. Tries to get away from abusive home. Republicans deny based on parental rights. Gets denied abortion. Gets on drugs. Gets thrown in prison for "Not WANTING to protect her child".
You are beeing so helpfull. God will REWARD you.
What is going on in this world?!?
A marxist cultural revolution in the West. Seriously, that is not hyperbole. To learn about what is happening check out James Lindsay. These are not just random one-off bad ideas.
Zionism
Get over yourself with this Zionism nonsense that has nothing to do with drug addicted babies.
🤨Really? In the name of Political Correctness?😒🤦♂ Children should be protected FIRST No matter what the Race!
Especially if I say Black lives matter ... and then I Ruin a Black poor child's health to soothe a White well off liberal's self Image.
If the druggie mother is a "victim", then is not reporting the drugs in newborns somehow making the mother less of a "victim"? As far as i can tell... this kind of logic creates 2 victims where there used to be only 1 victim. The baby should be protected and by bringing attention to the problem, the mother can also get the help she needs. Instead they choose to abandon the infant, while enabling the mother to ruin her life as well as the life of her child.
All children deserve parents, but not all parents deserves children.
My wife works for DCF here in Massachusetts and we were just talking the other day how many mandated reporters are not reporting from police, to healthcare workers etc it’s disgusting and infuriating!!!
This is going to flood Child Safety departments because chances are a drug addicted parent cannot thoroughly address an infants needs, and if breast feeding, will continue to feed drugs to the baby. What a sad future we are creating.
You think drug addicts breastfeed? Lol. WIC is free.
As a mother of 4 and a registered nurse, this is most definitely infuriating
As mandated reporters, how can hospitals get away with this? If anything happens to these children once leaving the hospital, how will these hospitals avoid liability? If anything were to happen to these children as a result of the neglect, hospital staff should be charged criminally for failing to report as it’s their responsibility.
How about INTERVENING with pregnant women who have a drug problem? Like REQUIRED drug rehab!!!
The problem is a lot of pregnant women who do drugs do not get prenatal care-they could, but choose not to. So they show up at the hospital when it’s time to have the baby and the healthcare team has no idea how long or what variety of drugs they’ve taken in the pregnancy.
@@amynazza But surely that problem will dissolve itself, because abortion bans will make unwantedly pregnant women and girls so happy that they clean up...Now that you made their lives that much easier.
Why would a rape victim forced to give birth in excrucisting pain and with no future perspective or Current Security....want to Take drugs? There will not be an increase of these issues in the future...for sure. Mommyhood is going to make everything ok.
The question is when or at what age does a child become worthy enough to care about?
It keeps getting later and later it seems
In the state of Massachusetts, if a child is found to have been exposed to drugs either by evidencing drug withdrawal after birth or by positive toxic screens the hospital has to report this to the child protection agency through a report called a 51A. This is state law. I worked in OB/GYN at BMC for over 25 years so am very familiar with the law so Mass General cannot ignore what they are mandated to do. They cannot pick and choose who they decide to report to drug test either. They are not doing babies any favors by letting them go home to families where moms are using drugs. I sure am glad I am retired and do not have to deal with this "woke" BS as I actually found the lives of babies to be valuable.
But vigilante liberal social workers will protect them out of "compassion."
a couple years ago in my high school there was a similar situation. my school was very strict. but then they got rid of a bunch of rules and policies and were very very lax on the rules all of a sudden because “these rules seem to target people of color” what they really meant by that is black students were breaking rules and getting in trouble at a hugely disproportionate number compared to the rest of the school. so instead of making these students understand that what they were doing was wrong, they literally told them they were right. i remember thinking it was stupid asf then and i still think it’s stupid asf
🤦🏻♀️this world is coming to an end
Isn't it obvious?!
Looks that way.
Intended.
Not the whole world. But the US has a chance to collapse.
No, it is time to return to the logic and principles of the Enlightenment and Renaissance (which themselves were efforts to reproduce Greek thought). Reason and logic has propelled the human race forward many times before, and it will do it again.
So...rather than addressing the problem, we're ignoring it in the hope that it, what, goes away?
No. They are ignoring the problem because they want a good public image. Some kids die? Ok, they die because of parents, not the hospital. The hospital's reputation stays clean. It's like not helping someone to get out of a shit-pit because you're on the way to a date and have your best suit on.
Poor babies
They think that if they don't report it, it didn't happen. In their limited minds, this is a good thing.
So, sweep the truth under the rug is what they promote!!!!
Well kama exists, given the number of cases the odds are fairly high that one of these cowards will 16 years later end up meeting on the street one of these babies who is out killing for the fun of it.
OMG! That horrific. I occasionally teach students born substance-addicted and to avoid all other possibility of harm is paramount so these kids can thrive.
This is deeply shocking. Appalling
Hopefully the nursing licensing board can step in and advocate for the patients.
Just ridiculous, the insanity deepens by the day and helps nobody it is obviously the contrary. It is so very sad that some kids don't have a fair chance from the very start.
WHY DO I LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS?!?!
This is totally heartbreaking and unbelievable. Thank you Amala for speaking on this. So many societal policies now trending toward NOT protecting children and instead promoting an agenda.
My husband and I got pregnant when I was going through a severe health issue and was on all types of medication (yes we used birth control). Even though I was under the care of a physician and had prescriptions for everything, I was still reported and CPS investigated when my son was born. Those poor kids are going to suffer and its disgusting.
Ok, but not why sure why CPS went after you. Sounds like you were being responsible taking birth control and still ended up being one of the rare unlucky ones to have birth control fail.
@@chaliceflame1314 because my son had drugs in his system. In my state it's mandatory to be reported and investigated.
How can the number of babies born with drugs in their systems become disproportionate of anything?? The proportion is pretty exact to the number born… the color of the baby and /or mother should not matter whatsoever. The care needs to happen, this is ridiculous.
It's better to endanger babies than it is to be truthful and called racist. Instead of evaluating every case on its own.
Isn't it more racist to assume black people do so many drugs that if they test the babies most will come up with drugs in their system? And so they need to stop testing babies for the sake of not offending black people???
I know a couple who adopted a child at 8 months. But the province did not tell them he was born addicted to cocain.
Years later he was doing well in school, etc., when one of his friends got hold of cocain. With one use, the rest were fine. But he wasn't.
It started a life of drugs, crime, jail and living on the street. He became too dangerous to have in the home.
They still love him. He is in his 40s now. His parents phone and send presents when he is in jail and they know where he is.
Not only do these babies need to be tested, they need to be told young their special risk for drug addiction. They need to understand the danger.
Aren't doctors and other healthcare workers, mandatory reporters. How can individual hospitals wave that responsibility? I sense some lawsuits in this hospital's future.
as a child I was abused, so I just am astounded these medical professionals have no consequences for aiding and abetting this neglect. That is disgusting. No child should endure this!
This isn't even neglect its far far worse than neglect.
Meanwhile I'm over here utterly terrified of going to court every time one of my kids gets too sick to go to school. Wtf
This is evil..Like im not saying you have to take the baby away for ever but you need to report that and keep an eye on them. make them do rehab etc.
drug abuse is a choice that an adult makes. then to not care enough about a baby to get help or stop
Lawsuit time. Let the Commonwealth of Massachusetts go under. 😄👌
Just continue the circle of harm... SO very SICK and SAD!!!!
This affects black and brown people much more profoundly than reporting them does. These women need help, not a system that enables their addiction.
I'm sure these babies will thank these new protections when they are normal well adjusted adults with no childhood traumas or mental/physical health conditions.
This is gold star history in the making 🙄
So, in order to prevent negative effects from happening, they will no longer drug test babies, which purpose is to *prevent negative things from happening* 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The "you can't say that" movement strikes again.
I remember a few years back the one about "the best thing a single mother can do to stop their child going to jail is put the child up for adoption", boy the "you can't stay that" mob melted down. Not because it was wrong but because they didnt like it.
I quit smoking weed as soon as my fiancé and I decided we wanted to start a family. Waiting a year after quitting because I don't want my babies to have the chance to get any of that in their system.
If this reporting mostly impacts people of color, then maybe they are the ones who need the most help. Not reporting does not help at all. WTF?
That's just. Oh my gosh. What about how it disproportionately effects newborn babies?!
If the mom doesn't have a prescription for whatever it is, then they need to be reported.
Thank you for bringing attention to this. Disgusting and sad.
It's my understanding that the reporting is no longer mandatory because they were forced to report people who were taking suboxone ( a drug used to ease opiate withdrawls and improve addiction cessation efforts) and other drugs beong used by parents who were trying to make positive changes for the arrival of their child. Reporting still seems to be at the discretion of the hospital, so if a baby was born with meth in their body, I would imagine that hospitals would still be reporting that
If they were or are taking Suboxone the OB should be aware, an ROI signed for coordination of care and working with the mother for responsible withdrawal from the medication to lessen the fetal impacts. There would be no report because The situation would already be followed and hopefully a case manager to assist in any needs. There should be an ROI for neotaolgy consult and pediatric care.
Its virtually encouragement,, and not giving any deterrent to stop your unnecessary drug behaviour when YOU (MOTHER), know that the drugs will go into the system of the BABY,,,, Come on look after your baby in the womb, its 9 months... and probably one of the reasons some women choose to have an abortion .because they choose the drugs over the child.. so pathetic that people make babies then DISCARD them for their drug behaviour,,,,,,, Drugs what a horrible world,,,, there needs to be some alternative to stop this... ....Great show Amala. keep up the good work youre a blessing to this darkening world..
How in the world does a woman (not person) that gives birth to a baby with drugs in its system not scream of neglect? She didn't care enough to stop doing drugs/drinking when she was pregnant😡😡😡
This is so sick. What's wrong with these people?
Does that mean babies will start dying left and tight because they refuse to treat it for the associated side effects from being born with drugs in their systems? Because you can’t without admiring the drugs presence
Aside from the suffering of withdrawal the babies go through. Such tender caring people.
Given the reasoning behind those hospitals not caring about the drugs in kids' systems, I'm starting to wonder if this is a subtle form of eugenics.
So much for "Do no Harm."
Hospitals are mandatory reporters! This is sickening 🤬
THIS IS MISINFORMATION!!!!
Mandatory to report this
EQUALLY, black population is very low In Massachusetts, the report found that black women is more LIKELY to be reported over white
Go read it for yourself.
This is by far one the most discouraging things I’ve ever heard. I can genuinely feel the hope leaving my body.
I wonder if there is any relationship between babies born on drugs, people not finishing school and ending up in prison?
I thought drugs testing was mandatory in all states so what's the issue
As I do with most every view point you espouse, I wholeheartedly agree. Absolutely spot on!
I live in one of these states. Children are not a priority at all. They very often are left in abusive homes until it’s too late. It’s so sad.
So they don’t report it, mom goes home with baby and then mom gets high and somehow baby gets neglected, abused or worse.
So is baby being treated?
Baby goes home with mom and suffers?
They certainly don't have any issues later on, demanding a label be placed on their kids, for disability checks, and exemption from learning, homework and proper classroom deportment.
Yes, you are exactly on point. My brother works for ss disability and believe me, 80% of these kids end up on disability which mommy spends on drugs!! Massachusetts ssdi can't stop giving money to these lying scumbags cause they say it would cause riots!
Don't the babies need immediate medical assistance if drugs are in their system? And what other signs of abuse and neglect could there possibly be?
INSANE. I am an adoptee that was took into the system because of my moms substance abuse and being born with drugs in my systems. I could not imagine how it would be if that didn't happen (she is now in and out of jail, still abusing substances). That is horrible for any child to have to be forced to live with. I don't gaf what race you are, or what race if affects. The babies should be the damn priority.
Drug and paternity tests should be done for all babies at birth.
People are getting ridiculous!!!
I live in Massachusetts this is ridiculous
Additionally those kids might grow up not knowing why they have the issues they do. If they know maybe they can get help - but that's much harder without a diagnosis.
I say this because I know couples who have adopted babies that had fetal alcohol syndrome that caused at lot of issues. Had they had that diagnosis from the start they might have gotten more help when they really needed it.
Someone just shoot me. This is a new level of ridiculousness. Amala, I respect you so much. Keep doing what you're doing. 😊
I’m pulling out my hair. As a retired medical social worker in the OB Department. Craziness.
I was a young mom and I wouldn't even take Tylenol when pregnant. Moms should give their child the best start.
Linerals: CoNsErVaTiVeS oNLy CaRe AbOuT bAbIeS uNtIL tHeY'rE bOrN
Also liberals:
Lets not protect innocent babies just in case we hurt the feelings of full grown adults 🫠
At this point they may as well not call them babies but "failed abortions".
Ridiculous times we live in. In the UK two newborn babies were dumped outside in bags in freezing temperatures and instead of going after them for neglect and attempted murder they said they were concerned for the mother and could she please get herseld checked out. Also saw a podcast where a rape victim kept her baby and told pro choice woman that using rape victims to make her point can be hurtful. The woman said she was disgusted that she kept the rape baby and she should have killed it. Now babies who are born in hospitals are also being targeted. Why does society now view babies as less than a child or adult? It just seems today people don't value the most vulnerable anymore. I think it says alot about a society by how they value the children.