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Oxytots: Instead of learning from the unfounded hysteria of the crack baby era, we’re repeating it (Slate)

Libby Copeland December 7, 2013

As we now know, the mass hysteria over “crack babies” and their deviant mothers was unfounded. Crack cocaine doesn’t do the kind of damage we thought it did to developing babies. Unfortunately, instead of learning from this heady mix of bad science, a sensationalist press, over-reaching prosecutors, and the narrative of the selfish mother content to damage her baby, we’re repeating it.

Categories: Gender, Pop Culture, Slate Tags: anti-abortion, civil rights, NAPW, pregnancy

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