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Watch: How a Faulty Hospital Drug Test Can Turn New Parents Into Police Targets
Watch our joint investigation with CBS Sunday Morning, exposing how unreliable drug tests at childbirth lead to parents being referred to law enforcement.
New Jersey Adopts Major Reforms Around Hospital Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients
Following Marshall Project reporting, the state now requires hospitals to confirm test results before reporting them to authorities.
Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
Back in hospital
I'm writing this from my hospital bed, having been re-admitted on Sunday. I had a seizure at home, and this time Christine and our ten-year-old were there to witness it. Last month I had a fall at home, which I put down to feeling faint but a seizure hadn't been ruled out. Now it seems...
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Newsletter celebrating Month of Diversity talking about my works, life and My Cat's little misadventures
How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights
Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.
From New York to Arizona, More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth
Some bills followed an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of widespread drug testing of pregnant patients.
Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth
Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result.
Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them For Positive Drug Tests
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit Claims
The Marshall Project recently investigated how faulty drug tests at hospitals lead to pregnant women being reported to authorities and at times separated from their children.
She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.