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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i don't see this as nazi behavior so i don't really think a police state definition is appropriate. based on the article, i find this more along the lines of bureaucratic ineptitude. now if this was the 300th time split amongst a variety of locations, i could see how this is by design, but the fact is that there is no operation in place where the government is trying to confiscate the babies of moms testing positive for opiates.
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I see it as the government overstepping its bounds. It starts with hospitals reporting information to the police. Information that is being used to determine whether or not a woman is fit to be a mother.
What's next? The hospital doing credit checks to see if the parents are in debt? Can't possibly be a good parent if you are in debt, so lets take your child away. Or, what about if some religious government officials decided that a child must be raised by both a father and a mother and that single mothers are unfit to raise children? etc...
Those example may seem far fetched but the principle is the same.
And what about the trust between a patient and her doctor? Next thing you know, pregnant women who in the past have used drugs will stop going to the doctors...