Sue the bastards -- I mean the mothers

Townhall.com ^ | 6/22/06 | Kathleen Parker

[NRA1995]

First they came for the workplace, then for people’s homes and cars, and then the great outdoors. Now the anti-tobacco jihadists, having helped ban smoking in most public and many private places, have turned their attention to the most private space of all — the womb.

John Banzhaf, the heavyweight George Washington University law professor who for years has led the anti-smoking brigade is setting his sights on fetal rights related to their smoking mums. While it is legally defensible to abort a fetus up until moments before birth, it is apparently inconceivable that a woman would expose her unborn child to the harmful effects of smoking.

[Taliesan]

Many environmental toxins readily cross the placenta into the baby's circulation.

Sorry.

[SheLion]

Many environmental toxins readily cross the placenta into the baby's circulation.

Well, "I'm" not sorry.  I can only speak from experience:

My daughter weighed 8lbs 12 ounces and 21 and a half inches long.  She tipped 10 on the newborn baby scale for all things good health.

Even though we drank coffee, smoked, took aspirin and an occasional drink at get togethers, my daughter was born big and healthy.  Never had breathing problems, no asthma and the likes of that.

When I was a kid, mother caught me eating dirt.  I'm just saying too much protection is not a good thing.  Kids need to build up their immune systems.  Especially in this day and age when so much junk is floating around in the air.

[TAdams8591]

I was wrong. There are some instances where some preganant drug addicted mothers have been charged. Here's one.