So you support a woman's right to do drugs, etc and injure her fetus?  When society bears the expense of the treatment of an illness resulting from a known health risk, then society can and will make rules to reduce that expense.  I hope you are being tongue-in-cheek here!  

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Subject: Re: AAP and a woman's right to choose...

g raphael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> What health practitioner or health agency would defend a woman's right 
> to smoke during pregnancy???

I'm not sure if this is what you actuall mean, georgia, but I would absolutely 100% defend a woman's _right_ to smoke during pregnancy, just as I'd defend a woman's right not to breastfeed - no matter how much I might think it's a bad decision. If there were any moves to criminalise what a woman does with her body during pregnancy, I'd be first in line to chain myself to Parliament House in protest.

I think it's very important to separate public health education messages from a rights-based discourse, _especially_ when it comes to pregnancy, reproduction, and women's bodies.

Dr Lara Hopkins

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