Posted on 10/16/2018 7:25:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 10/16/2018 7:49:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - First lady Melania Trump will travel to Philadelphia to meet with families of children who were affected by exposure to opioids while in the womb.
Mrs. Trump is being joined on her Wednesday visit to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
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A good cause. My God, imagine being born addicted to heroin or opioids.
Freegards
Look up class in the dictionary. Her picture is there. Greatest 1st lady ever. She is as tough as DJT and a lot easier to look at. KAG
Prayers for those suffering from that addiction.
Good for her. A worthwhile cause. I was greatly impressed with Melania’s appearance on 20/20.
I’ve taken care of quite a few of these infants when I worked in NICU. They really suffer for weeks and weeks. And you frequently have to deal with the mother at the bedside.
It’s not easy work and it takes a lot of patience.
Melania has probably had a really insulated life up till now. She’s really getting an education. It kills me that she’s being treated so horribly. I’ll never forget how the Trumps were treated.
I hope she makes a difference with this issue. It’s possible, which is pretty amazing. Yeah, she is great as far as I can tell. They would have been renaming streets already if she was a dem 1st lady with the way she looks.
Freegards
Growing up poor in a communist country? Compared to who?
I beg your forgiveness. Adult life. But I would be interested to hear of her difficulty growing up if you know about it.
Yeah, everything I have heard about this situation is just awful. Going through withdrawal and beyond as a new born baby must be just horrible for all involved.
Freegards
As a NICU nurse, I took care of a lot of those babies. Thank God for our volunteer cuddlers.
The last couple of years when I was caring for those babies, the mothers were encouraged to visit and help with their care. The babies did a lot better.
It’s really cool such a cool lady might raise awareness of this situation. It is possible these people might actually help these poor kids. I wouldn’t bet against the Trumps at this point.
Freeagrds
Melania grew up in communist Yugoslavia during some turbulent times. Hardly insulated.
Morons in my hometown
What kind of mamma would knowingly drug their unborn ?
Hey. At least they didn’t go to Dr. Gosnell. Right ?
States like Maine and Vermont look the other way, and most of the others have become apathetic towards punishing the mother. Only Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee enforce criminal penalties. The main argument I suppose is that the mothers are ‘victims’ of an ‘illness’ of addiction. But there’s no counter-argument that the unborn child is being forced to develop the same ‘illness’. That and a general reluctance of the mother or the state to go after the specific pusher in question does leave the punishment for the women to bear, but only because they refuse to give up their pusher-man:
(2015 data)
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/maternity-drug-policies-by-state
During my amputation they killed me with opioids and brought me back with Narcan.
Who do you mean ‘’They?’’. My point is the idiotic way this society looks at addiction as if everyone who needs pain medication is an addict. That’s a dumb as saying everyone who drinks becomes an alcoholic or everyone who owns a gun is a mass murderer.
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