i agree with you. but there are some points that i would also like to point out. you might be right were if drug test are mandatory you will get more people getting abortions. but is this what we really want? and yes just doing the random is wrong as well as most are poor women of color. but i still think that it is the mothers responsibility to get clean, if they do get caught the right way then they deserve what comes to them. but discriminating against these poor women is wrong on so many levels. also did you ever think that this would cost us the tax payers more money if we make mandatory to do drug test. i have and i think that if the mom cant get clean on there own they should not even be having a baby in the first place. there are many ways to prevent this and even abortion should be chosen if the mom is a drug user, mainly because they should know that they are not ready for a baby. get your life straighten out before you even think you can raise a baby properly. if you can't do it properly don't do it at all.
Gostin, Lawrence O. "Testing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is Discriminatory."
San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
Web. 29 Jan. 2010
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To test or not to Test?
Jessica Deutsch
English 1022
Brian Lewis
To Test or Not to Test
Even though testing urine for drugs can be a very helpful and try to get mothers back on the right track, it also can be very discriminatory. There have been a lot of cases in which doctors will only send reports to the police of women who were low income minorities. In the poor community hospitals many minority women were tested without their consent or knowledge. Hospitals in a middle or upper class community the women who were found using illicit drugs made referrals to social services but not to the police (Gostin). In the case of Ferguson vs. the City of Charleston devised a policy which stated which type of woman should be tested for drugs. They targeted, “women who had obtained no prenatal care or late or incomplete prenatal care, and women known to have previously abused drugs or alcohol abuse” (Gostin). This is looked at to be very discriminatory to all women. It isn’t fair that only low income woman and past drug abuser women should only be tested for drugs while being pregnant. In 2001 the Supreme Court overturned the Ferguson vs. the City of Charleston saying public hospitals cannot give woman drug tests without a warrant, and turning positive urine results into the police (Gostin). They believe that this would be violating the fourth amendment against unreasonable searches. The start of testing pregnant women for drugs on a regular basis can result them to consider more abortions then trying to get treatment. I think this is very true if women that are on drugs know that they will be tested all the time for drugs, and then maybe potentially turned into the police if found positive, they won’t want to go to the doctor anymore, and getting an abortion would be a better case then dealing with the consequences with the police.
In theory trying to get women help while pregnant would be the best guess to trying to protect the mother and the fetus, but at the same time it may also cause discriminatory acts against women not of the middle or upper class, and cause women to get abortions because they don’t want to get in trouble with the law. I agree that women should be tested for drugs in the sake of the baby, but it shouldn’t just be certain women it should be every single woman no matter what race, or class!
Gostin, Lawrence O. "Testing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is Discriminatory."
San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
Web. 29 Jan. 2010
English 1022
Brian Lewis
To Test or Not to Test
Even though testing urine for drugs can be a very helpful and try to get mothers back on the right track, it also can be very discriminatory. There have been a lot of cases in which doctors will only send reports to the police of women who were low income minorities. In the poor community hospitals many minority women were tested without their consent or knowledge. Hospitals in a middle or upper class community the women who were found using illicit drugs made referrals to social services but not to the police (Gostin). In the case of Ferguson vs. the City of Charleston devised a policy which stated which type of woman should be tested for drugs. They targeted, “women who had obtained no prenatal care or late or incomplete prenatal care, and women known to have previously abused drugs or alcohol abuse” (Gostin). This is looked at to be very discriminatory to all women. It isn’t fair that only low income woman and past drug abuser women should only be tested for drugs while being pregnant. In 2001 the Supreme Court overturned the Ferguson vs. the City of Charleston saying public hospitals cannot give woman drug tests without a warrant, and turning positive urine results into the police (Gostin). They believe that this would be violating the fourth amendment against unreasonable searches. The start of testing pregnant women for drugs on a regular basis can result them to consider more abortions then trying to get treatment. I think this is very true if women that are on drugs know that they will be tested all the time for drugs, and then maybe potentially turned into the police if found positive, they won’t want to go to the doctor anymore, and getting an abortion would be a better case then dealing with the consequences with the police.
In theory trying to get women help while pregnant would be the best guess to trying to protect the mother and the fetus, but at the same time it may also cause discriminatory acts against women not of the middle or upper class, and cause women to get abortions because they don’t want to get in trouble with the law. I agree that women should be tested for drugs in the sake of the baby, but it shouldn’t just be certain women it should be every single woman no matter what race, or class!
Gostin, Lawrence O. "Testing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is Discriminatory."
San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
Web. 29 Jan. 2010
no drug testing
No drug testing
Now I’m all for a healthy mom equals a healthy baby. But it is my option that it is not the doctor’s job to do random drug test unless it is a minatory one that is part of the check up. There has been many times of doctors asking for a urine test when it is not part of the check up. Although there has been casing where the mom was abusing drugs most of the time it is Discriminatory. These drug tests are sometimes taking without the using knowing there are testing for drugs and are focused towards poor women of color. This is very wrong and should not be done without the knowledge of the mother. As far as the drug user moms, it is their responsibility to get help if needed. The doctor should also go over the risk of what could happen. But doing a random drug test is not the way. Once again doing minatory urine test as part of the check up is ok, but doing without the mother’s knowledge or consent is very wrong.
Drug Tests of Pregnant Women Are Discriminatory. Mary Faith Marshall.
Opposing Viewpoints: Chemical Dependency. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003.
Testing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is Discriminatory. Lawrence O. Gostin.
Opposing Viewpoints: Drug Abuse. Ed. Tamara L. Roleff. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005.
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