28-year-old jet Lycia Beltran went to the doctor for prenatal check up when
she was about 14 weeks pregnant
and she thought that it would be a good idea to disclose her medical history
with him because of course she cares about her fetus you want to make sure
the baby is healthy
she told the doctor that about a year ago she had an addiction to a painkiller
however I she had gotten serious about kicking the addiction
and she was no longer using any type of prescription drug
she thought this was a good idea but it turns out that the
doctor in this situation told her that she needs to start
on an anti diction drug even though a urine test indicated that she didn't
have any drugs in her body
she refused to do so so few days later social worker MD doctor showed up to our
home
and she got detained for fusing to take
the anti diction track okay and
its just gets worse from there personal they bring on a court
they've got a ring shackles yep in shackles
because she major s she made the mistake of trusting your doctor
and telling them something that could be relevant to her pregnancy
and it turns out she was right she was applying
when I get it if a doctor could be skeptical I K really did you take a
certain educated Ishan
so but that at some point we realize she did
it doesn't matter she did a urine test it does in it you know what
they'd gaper 7e eight-day stay drug treatment center
anyway in the middle of her pregnancy okay
you know what happened she lost her job ok or should I gonna goes away seventy
eight days and I'll lose your job
she was arrested shaker where she got the court they had already decided to
send her away
well kinda court is this how is this in like this type of
this type of action is really pushed by pro-life people
right pro-life organizations and I'll get to that in just a second
but what I find so interesting is that if you're so pro-life
why would you destroy the life of the mother to the point where she will lose
her job and be
on able to provide for own kid how was that pro-life
it doesn't make any sense now the reason why they were able to do this is because
there is a law
in Wisconsin it's known as that cocaine mom Act 1998
and it basically states the child well welfare authorities can forcibly
confined a pregnant woman who uses the legal drugs or alcohol
to a severe degree and who also refuses to accept the treatment
sure if you sick said the trim in this case
because she had already beaten addiction
and you can tell from the urine test the she had no drugs in her system
by the way she did on our own man and she papered the
addiction drug like the sure you take ticket to and addiction
she paper to buy or sell slowly I me she showed tremendous willpower and doing it
and nonetheless she was crushed by the system anyway
now one other reasons might be because as an appointed up
their cortical pro-life and when one and when the social worker came in to talk
to her about
this which had revealed her doctor and her doctor
I mean to violate her privacy like that and give out her information
think about how damaging its right because then
nobody trusts her doctor and a Don't Tell then you
you would be afraid to tell your doctor things and I could be really really
dangerous
he's a I don't wanna get to carried away and I justice but
I think he did something terribly wrong the social worker comes at gets in a
fight with her
because she's she's telling her what to do it cetera et cetera
so some point Lisa gets mad and sis
mommy this just abort the baby right that she shouldn't have said that she
wasn't gonna abort the baby she got mad at
a justifiably so then
share officers come a couple days later and take her away in handcuffs
because no no no no no no no we don't give in damn about you your deal
you're already a life right but the so-called unborn child
how dare you think that in her comment there didn't have something to do
with the pro-life people Thomas share you gotta go get back did
okay got to go arrest third she said she might do an abortion okay
by the way %uh she's 14 weeks pregnant in that case right at man points is 14
weeks pregnant
I'll she I miss you can legally have an abortion at that point there's nothing
stopping her so
even she shouldn't have said that statement but even if she did
a she's never right she has every right to so they had
absolutely no right no grounds to detain her to put her in shackles to force her
to go to a drug treatment program
lose her job I mean the story as you said Jim just keeps getting worse
but if you think that wisconsin is the only state that has a law like this
you're wrong there are many other states
in fact out Wisconsin Minnesota Oklahoma and South Dakota
all have similar laws on the books just like this
and up for other red states that don't have a law like this
though usually use things like murder charges to prosecute women I'll give you
specific
example in mississippi there was a woman by the name reading kids who had a
history of drug use
she got pregnant she was not using drugs she delivered a stillborn
okay the prosecutor for murder
yes she gave birth to a stillborn they went to our history they've checked her
past drug
abuse and they said you know what this is grounds for prosecution
she's probably rich in white right know chris is black
and poor %uh weird how when you don't have power also on you wind up in
shackles
no matter what but this is all for your own benefit right cuz they're trying to
protect you and your family
except Wisconsin right to life admits the whole point of this law is
the gold Brady independent person heard and writes for the unborn child
in other words it's not the necessary to protect that particular fetus
is so to push their own ideology
saying well as soon as this conception it's an unborn child
and hence you know he knew all these things to you you made a mistake getting
pregnant sometimes
there were no after people for taking things like by getting
right after they conceived when they didn't even know they were pregnant
and by the way going back to which exit about person heard
in this particular case what happened was when she went to court
her fetus had a lawyer she didn't have her
own lawyer said don't think about how insane that is
she doesn't have a lawyer and they've already decided what's gonna happen her
before she even showed up
at man but the fetus has a lawyer it's upside-down world man
so she sued and a by issue absolutely positively
should have sued she sued because they deprive her a physical liberty which is
a 100 percent true
medical privacy which is a 100 percent true and due process and that's the one
that actually pisses me off the most
you can have bring somebody in accordance shackles SA
you know what a your elbow hasn't it attorney but you don't
and we've already decided your case that's not america
I hope she wins issuance huge is all based on
ideology it's not actually because it did care about
anybody including her unborn child