Child services are quick to get a child who is being abused out of a home or being neglected. But why arent mothers arrested for endangering a unborn child because they want to smoke? That child didnt ask to be made yet I see it everyday!! Why cant something be done about these stupid people who are doing this to their kids?!! They have a right to smoke but these children have a right to be healthy!!
2006-09-04 09:42:17 · 25 answers · asked by peachturnover 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Well my personal opinion is this: smoking around anyone or while a child is in you should be prohibited. If you want to screw up your body, thats fine. But when your right interfers with my right to clean air and healthy lungs...your right doesnt count. And if your gonna make a baby..dont freakin smoke. You now have more than yourself to think about and your stupid nicotine fix!!
2006-09-04 10:00:08 · update #1
Yes I agree. I hate seeing people that are pregnant smoking and drinking . I just want to yell at them !!!! My mother in law smoke and drank while she was pregnant. She has two miscarriages. I think its because she was drinking and smoking. Of course she also says that this will not hurt the baby and that smoking weed doesn't hurt anyone. Stupid people like that should not be allowed to have children !!!
2006-09-04 10:44:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The health of the child should be more important than the capricious "right" to smoke.
The problem lies in that at this point, you can't take the "baby" away from the mother, also it would be very difficult to effectively police the mother into not smoking.
What should be done, and is already being developped, is to court order the woman into taking an anti-nicotine vaccine.
This has been developped and it actually trains the antibodies to attack against nicotine spores in the blood vessels. That along with a drug with reduces the effectiveness of nicotine.
This causes the smoker to stop feeling the satisfaction that comes from smoking cigarettes and eventually the smoker tires and becomes a non-smoker.
We could innoculate a large portion of the population that way.
2006-09-04 16:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by Technotron 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I completely agree, in fact I'm a smoker, but as soon as I found out I was pg I quited, why would I be so selfish to pison the air my unborn baby is breathing, it's only 9 months, then you can do it again, I won't, This is the perfect reason for not doing it again, I dont want my child having a bad example at home and breathing the smoke at home too, I'm not planning on smoking again. My husband is very happy (he's a non smoker)
2006-09-04 16:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by Baby Ruth habla español 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm twelve, I can't stand being around people who smoke. It feels like someone is just shoving a cigarette down my throat. I agree that they have a right to smoke, but they don't have a right to put their children in so much danger. Second hand smoking is no better than smoking. My aunt smoked when she was pregnant, she still does, two of my cousins are deaf and one is retarded. That's not fair to them, because my cousins have to sit on a bus for hours just to get to a good school with a program for deaf kids.
2006-09-04 18:37:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why does everyone "assume" that babies will be born with problems due to smoking? Not all mothers can just up and quit when they become pregnant. I smoked a pack and a half a day (30 cigarettes) before I found out I was pregnant. I cut down to 4 or 5 a day. That's quite a difference isn't it? My kids were BOTH born perfectly healthy. Want to know something "funny?" I had a miscarriage when I was 6 weeks; that's the ONLY pregnancy I completely stopped smoking for. It's kind of ironic isn't it?
2006-09-04 16:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Smoking increases the risk of birth defects, but is not an absolute surety that there will be a problem.
Besides, why would our society prohibit smoking while pregnant at the same time as allowing elective abortions?
OSHA does prohibit employers from exposing pregnant women to dangerous chemicals, but women are allowed to do whatever they want to their fetuses in their private lives.
2006-09-04 16:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by sjpadilla1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what your definition of smoking is. If you are referring to smoking cigarettes, then until the government makes smoking illegal your point is mute. From what I've heard, smoking cigarettes doesn't really harm the baby, it only contributes to potentially smaller birth weight. But I'm not a doctor and I haven't researched the subject in great detail. All I know is that whether you smoke or you don't, it seems to me that our rights are being taken away from us daily. If you want to smoke and destroy your body, then that should be your choice. If you want to wear a seat belt and save your life if you get in a car wreck then that should be your choice. Now, if you have a child and that child is in your car, by all means, put a seat belt on the child. If you are to stupid not to do so, then you should be told to do so, but I don't think that I should be penalized for the ignorance of others. I don't want my rights taken away because of the ignorance of the few. When the government takes away one's right to smoke, what's next? Will they take away your right to eat Twinkies because they think you are too fat? It's bad for your health? Might cause diabetes? I wonder......
2006-09-04 16:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Phyllobates 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I totally agree with the fact that there should be a law against pregnant women smoking while pregnant. I think they should be fined and made to go to parenting classes.
2006-09-04 20:08:54 · answer #8 · answered by jackie681987 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In MD, two convictions were overturned for women who used cocaine during their pregnancies and gave birth to ill children.
The court ruled that a prosecutor could launch abusive prosecutions for women who performed ANY risky behavior during pregnancy. To protect the public from such abusive prosecutions, the court threw out the cases against (probably) low income women on MD's Eastern Shore.
The actual opinion is included in the link:
2006-09-04 16:49:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is America. Land of the free. We have the Constitution that protects our rights as free people. So even though we may not agree with it, it's their right to smoke, just like it's a woman's right to have an abortion if she chooses. No it's not very fair to a baby that can't choose to smoke, but what about the people who smoke in their cars and homes with their kids? Those kids can't choose either and no one says anything for them.
There are pro's and con's to it, but in all actual reality, I'm glad that we have the Constitution. Now if only our current administration would adhere to it......
2006-09-04 16:48:01 · answer #10 · answered by jenpeden 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋