Hundreds of women who used drugs while pregnant have faced criminal charges — even when they deliver healthy babies.
By CARY ASPINWALL, The Marshall Project
July 25, 2023
When Quitney Armstead learned she was pregnant while locked up in a rural Alabama jail, she made a promise — to God and herself — to stay clean.
She had struggled with addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder for nearly a decade, since serving in the Iraq War. But when she found out she was pregnant with her third child, in October 2018, she resolved: “I want to be a mama to my kids again.”
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