If you are a black, poor, single, latina, or mother without insurance....or any combination of the aforementioned ...you can be up to 10 times more likely than white women/wealthy women to have your baby drug tested in the hospital...false ...positives can be as high as 47%....the babies are taken away from the mothers...sold and put into abusive foster care homes.
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Why Are We Testing Newborns for Pot?
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/why-are-we-testing-newborns-pot
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