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By Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

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What's Next? Prosecuting a Pregnant Woman for Working Full Time?

This summer, Tennessee thumbed its nose at doctors, nearly every national medical association, addiction experts, and women's right activists and passed a law that essentially criminalizes pregnancy. In short, this deeply misguided law risks the health of women and babies by threatening expectant mothers who struggle with addiction or substance abuse with jail time, forcing those women who need health care the most into the shadows.