Prescriptions of drugs to pregnant women harm the unborn children - should we expect the backlash against women's medical care or will a reasonable solution be found?

There was an article posted on Forbes.com yesterday about overprescription of narcotic pain-killers to mothers that harm the babies who are born with narcotic drugs in their system.

The article states that when children are born with narcotic withdrawal, it happens not only when mothers abuse drugs during pregnancy, but when such drugs are prescribed to the mothers by physicians, such as obstetricians, pain clinics etc.

I also wrote on this blog just 3 days ago about statutes throughout the country which, obviously with good intentions, but still illegally and unconstitutionally attempt to protect fetuses from their mothers, to the point of incarcerating the mothers to undergo court-ordered substance abuse rehabs.

Apparently, now mothers will not only be incarcerated and sent to forced rehabs in order to protect fetuses, but will be denied pain medications that their doctors recommend them because the needs of fetuses overrule the medical decisions of women's own physicians for the benefit of women's own health and pain management.

Yet, when the child is born, the reverse happens - a doctor wants to prescribe a drug that may be harmful to the child, a parent reads about the drugs' counter-indications and side effects and says "no" - and the parent lands in a child protective proceeding (with a potential to lose his or her job, custody or parental rights) where a judge who is no specialist in medications, without advice of an expert, orders the parent to give consent for medicating the child with the objectionable drug.

The alternative is to lose custody of the child to CPS and, ultimately, to lose parental rights and the child to a forced adoption by strangers.

Therefore, a doctor who may be courted by manufacturers of such drugs that were never approved by the Food and Drug Administration for their safe and efficient use for children, still has power over the parents, preventing them from seeking a second opinion, preventing them from refusing to give their "informed consent" to medicating the child and forcing them - or Medicaid, if parents are indigent - to pay exorbitant amounts of money to make the child an addict for life and to harm the child's health by side effects.

If CPS gets their grubby hands on the children and get custody of them in CPS proceedings, they will medicate them at their heart's desire because they will get more money from the federal government for a child with medical or mental "disabilities" (and prescriptions and a diagnosis underlying the prescription will be proof for such funding), than for a healthy child.

And, when the child's health is ultimately destroyed by prescription medications that were never meant or tested for safety or efficiency for pediatric use, CPS will get more money from the federal government to adopt the child out.

So, trying to protect fetuses from exposure to drugs is a pretense by CPS to get children already born "in good faith" and subject them to the same narcotics, in return for federal funding.

Kids for cash.  An unbeatable deal - and a nation with ruined health in the future.

The problem of babies born with withdrawal does exist, as described in the article on Forbes.com that I referenced.

Yet, solutions for the problems should not be forced deprivation of women of needed medical care.