So you can kill an unborn child legally by abortion but this woman who had a disease consume her life get sentenced to 12 years.Im not condoning what she did but you have to see the the ignorance in this.I mean it a known fact that crack cocaine is available to prisoners in every facility across america and sentencing this girl to prison instead of rehabilition is just a waste of everyones time and resources involved.Am I all alone on this planet.

Get Active!!!! THE MYTH OF THE "CRACK BABY" A retrospective survey ( or "meta-analysis" ) of 1980s research found seri-ous methodological flaws, from a failure to distinguish cocaine exposure from exposure to other drugs, to a lack of control groups ( Teratology, 1 991; 44:405-414 ). Health-care providers working with infants exposed to cocaine in utero found them indistinguishable from other children. Much medical research pointed to other fac-tors - such as the lack of good prenatal care, use of alcohol and tobacco, and, simply enough, poverty - as more primary factors in poor fetal development among pregnant cocaine users than cocaine itself. Not surprising, then, that the new medical consensus fail-ing to support a link between prenatal cocaine exposure and catastrophic biological or developmental problems garnered a tiny fraction of the media attention devoted to the idea that "Parents Who Can't Say 'No' Are Creating a Generation of Misery" (LA. Times, 9/21/89). cocaine's "sledge-hammer" impact on the fetal brain were unfounded, "neither is it a prenatal vitamin."