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You Should Not Be Able To Arrest A Woman For Breast-Feeding While Drunk
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Posted on 06/24/2009 1:19:13 PM PDT by vaper69

Can someone … anyone … explain how it is possible for a woman who is breast-feeding while intoxicated to be arrested while a pregnant woman who drinks goes free?

I am fed up with society’s hypocrisy when it comes to children, babies, or fetuses. There is no logical argument for there being a difference between a 7, 8, 9 month pregnant woman drinking, and a woman breast-feeding while drunk.

This constant struggle to simply try and figure out what is/is not a baby and what is/is not abuse and neglect will have to come to a head sooner or later.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abortion; baby; breastfeeding; drunk
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1 posted on 06/24/2009 1:19:17 PM PDT by vaper69
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2 posted on 06/24/2009 1:22:41 PM PDT by ex91B10 (The only response now is mass resistance.)
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Life is not fair. It is not tit for tat sometimes.

parsy, who wonders how they sampled the result?????


3 posted on 06/24/2009 1:23:49 PM PDT by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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I dont know if I was drunk legally, but I was breast feeding my babies, and I would drink beer, as it was a fast way to produce more milk, all women are not good producers, but breast feed their children..


4 posted on 06/24/2009 1:25:09 PM PDT by JoanneSD
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Referring to any particular case?

Breast milk probably has no more alcohol than the mother’s blood, so 0.2%, say? A drink like that wouldn’t even count as alcoholic. Granted, babies are heavy drinkers.

Biggest danger is dropping the baby on its head, not getting it drunk.


5 posted on 06/24/2009 1:25:43 PM PDT by heartwood
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Maybe they’re afraid the little sucker will have the DTs when it comes time to wean him.

parsy, who thinks wonders never cease


6 posted on 06/24/2009 1:26:17 PM PDT by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."

~ Ayn Rand ~

7 posted on 06/24/2009 1:28:53 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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A wonderful nurse told me to ‘have a beer or two’ when starting to actually produce milk (the letdown from colustrum to milk can be painful). It did work...and no...not a drunk mommy here either. Just a little more mellow :)


8 posted on 06/24/2009 1:29:15 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building...carrying the Stanley Cup.)
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Well,if you can’t arrest them for doing that what can you arrest them for?


9 posted on 06/24/2009 1:33:12 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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Wasn’t sure from the headline whether they were talking about a drunk policeman making the arrest, or a drunk mother being arrested.


10 posted on 06/24/2009 1:34:54 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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For some reason this thread made me think of this video.
11 posted on 06/24/2009 1:35:37 PM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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“How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”


12 posted on 06/24/2009 1:36:38 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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You Should Not Be Able To Arrest A Woman For Breast-Feeding While Drunk You shouldn't be arresting anyone when drunk.
13 posted on 06/24/2009 1:38:39 PM PDT by dblshot
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But personally I am of the opinion that neither should be arrested. What are the grounds for arrest?

One could suggest child endangerment in the case of the breast feeding woman but could not in the case of the pregnant woman because in the eyes of the law no child exists.

But in my opinion the suggestion of child endangerment for the breast fed child is nebulous in the extreme.

Unless the breast feeding woman is drunk to the point of passing out the immediate danger to the child is negligible.

My opinion is that if Family of such a woman feel that the mother of such a child is doing this habitually to the point that the child faces immediate danger then the court can find just cause to action but a single instance would not be. The crux of my line of logic is that there must be familial first action prior to court action.

14 posted on 06/24/2009 1:38:41 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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Probably related to this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2278407/posts


15 posted on 06/24/2009 1:39:38 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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What if it’s not her baby?


16 posted on 06/24/2009 1:45:59 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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Thought I heard that she was at home and a nosy neighbor noticed her slurred speech and called the cops who arrested her for child endangerment ....
17 posted on 06/24/2009 1:46:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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A good example of the stupidity of “mother government”.


18 posted on 06/24/2009 1:47:34 PM PDT by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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You Should Not Be Able To Arrest A Woman For Breast-Feeding While Drunk

The writer needs some work. You shouldn't arrest anyone while drunk. When an officer becomes intoxicated he should lose his powers of arrest and detention.

Have you ever even seen like during the time where a partial-birth abortion is performed?

I have no idea what the above is supposed to mean, but I'm fairly certain it's not written in English.

19 posted on 06/24/2009 1:50:44 PM PDT by Melas
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Exactly what I was thinking... syntax incorrect.


20 posted on 06/24/2009 2:00:08 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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