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Excerpt from Hearing Before the Selected Committee on Children, Youth, and Families: House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, April 27, 1989
Criminal child abuse prosecutions of women who took certain drugs or alcohol during pregnancy may now be permitted in at least some parts of the United States. In California. A provision of the penal code defines as a misdemeanor a parent's wilful omission. Without legal excuse, to furnish necessary medical attendance or other remedial care for his or her child, and thereafter deems a child conceived but not yet born as an existing person within the provision. The provision seemingly can be applied to infringe upon no constitutionally-protected right, and it clearly promotes the important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life. The much-publicized trial court dismissal of child abuse charges against Pamela Rae Stewart in 1986 (while pregnant. She ignored a doctor's advice to stop taking drugs) casts a cloud on the statute's future utility.
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