Pregnancy: Arizona Bill to Force Meth-Using Mothers-To-Be Into Treatment Passes Committee
The Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee Monday approved a bill that would allow the state to detain pregnant women who use methamphetamine and hold them involuntarily in drug treatment programs. The bill also creates the crime of child abuse against a fetus. With a 4-3 "do pass" vote in the committee, the measure now heads for the Senate floor.
The bill, SB1500, is sponsored by Sen. Pamela Gorman (R-Anthem). In committee, Gorman said she is not normally a proponent of government interference in the private lives of citizens. "But I do think that the state has some very specific roles," she said. "And one of them is to protect people from harm from other people."
Under the bill, if state Child Protective Service workers know or have reasonable grounds to believe a pregnant woman is using meth and is not voluntarily seeking treatment, they must seek a court order requiring her to cooperate in a treatment program. If the woman refuses to cooperate, the bill would allow CPS to ask a judge to have sheriff's deputies pick up the woman and take her to a treatment facility. As the bill itself puts it:
"Allows a CPS worker to petition the court for an emergency custody order directing a sheriff or law enforcement officer to take the expectant mother into custody and transport the expectant mother to an institution or facility specified in the order, if either of the following applies:
a) the expectant mother refuses to comply with an issued order to cooperate.
b) the CPS worker reasonably believes that the expectant mother has previously failed or refused to comply with an appropriate prescribed course of treatment or monitoring and believes that emergency custody is necessary to protect the unborn child."
Such an unprecedented intervention is necessary given the "highly addictive" nature of meth, Gorman said. Even women highly motivated to stay clean could backslide, she warned. "I would propose that a child can't wait for a year for backsliding off good intentions to be released from being forced-fed methamphetamines by the mother," Gorman said.
Meth-using pregnant women had no advocates at the committee hearing. The three committee members who voted against the measure did so not out of concern for the well-being of those women, but out of fear that Gorman's measure could be a stalking horse for cracking down on abortion in the state. The portion of the bill that creates the crime of child abuse against a fetus could be used to halt abortions, they warned.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 9:42amThe Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee Monday approved a bill that would allow the state to detain pregnant women who use methamphetamine and hold them involuntarily in drug treatment programs. The bill also creates the crime of child abuse against a fetus. With a 4-3 "do pass.
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Comment posted by Malkavian on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 3:22amI think everyone wants a situation where the least number of children are subjected to abusive levels of any intoxicant. So it's kinda understandable that someone plays this little scenario in his head: "an addicted mother is found, so we force her into treatment, her growing feetus get's the best of conditions, and there's one less addict and one less "meth-kid". Easy, huh?"
But this isn't a one shot game. This game will be played out many, many times, and the players (meth addicted mothers) will adapt. I just wonder what might happen when that initial victory has been won and the news spread?
Won't a lot of the next batch of mothers - out of petrifying fear of the law - keep away from doctors and the hospital? And won't this create a lot of problems in addition to the mother being addicted?