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[pk]

Well I know this has been said in another forum but I am going to put it out there once again.

A law should be passed that women that are pregnant should not be allowed to smoke (or drink).

I am very much against pregnant woman being allowed to smoke or drink. I realize so many people say that this is against our rights and a law of such should not be imposed on us.

Unfortuneately I feel our 'rights' should not be considered when we are harming another human, especially when the harm could be against an unborn life that depends on us to protect them. This little human cannot speak for him/her self. Someone has to stand up and protect the rights of the unborn and if the mother is not taking proper precautions to ensure a healthy life for her unborn child then a law needs to be placed on pregnant women to ensure the unborn child a healthy life.

The court steps in and arrest parents for child abuse. The law steps in if anyone tries to harm another person. So why does the law fail unborn babies as if they have no rights just because they are not in our 'world' yet?

So many facts and studies have been done on the dangers of smoking and/or drinking and the long term effects on the unborn child, yet everyone screams it is not fair to have a law protecting the child from this danger when the mom smokes. I read comments that say, education is the answer rather than placing a law on this. Educate? Sure. But so many people are uneducated on so many factors in life and many simply are not interested in learning. So what about them? Someone, somehow has to protect the unborn until everyone..gets the idea that smoking especially is harmful to the unborn child that can't speak for themselves. Unreal.