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Special report: Alabama leads nation in turning pregnant women into felons

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Sep 23 2015 8:27 PM

Alabama has turned hundreds of pregnant women into felons for using drugs — even when they’re legal and the kids turn out fine. Casey Shehi, at left with her son James, is one of at least 479 new and expecting mothers prosecuted across Alabama since 2006 after being tested, in many cases, without their knowledge or explicit consent. Today, AL.com partners with ProPublica — an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest — for a comprehensive analysis of Alabama’s “chemical endangerment of a child” law, the country’s toughest criminal law banning prenatal drug use. This story is by ProPublica’s Nina Martin, with reporting from AL.com's Amy Yurkanin.


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