The Marshall Project reports that some pregnant people in Texas hospitals were given pain killers to treat symptoms of their pregnancy only to be reported to child welfare authorities for positive ...

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NEWSROOM. WITH THE CHANGE THAT THEY’RE FIGHTING FOR. BRITTANY. WELL, ED MARIA ALL OF THEIR STORIES ARE DIFFERENT. THE ONE THING THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SEEKING A DRUG TEST. NOW ...

The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test. Dr. Sharon Ostfeld-Johns and her hospital colleagues had done it countless times before. This time, ...

According to a new investigation from The Marshall Project, hospitals are giving women drugs during labor and then reporting them to child welfare services when they later test positive for those same ...