Hospitals Gave Women Medications During Childbirth—Then Reported Them for Using Illicit Drugs

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Amairani Salinas was 32-weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean section, they gave […]