Two moms face judge for taking drugs while pregnant

by Keli Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:14 am

Two moms face judge for taking drugs while pregnant
Kingsport (TN) Times News ^ | October 16, 2011 | Jeff Bobo

ROGERSVILLE — Two mothers who used hard drugs during their pregnancies last year appeared separately before Judge John Dugger in Hawkins County Criminal Court Friday to offer pleas to one count of felony reckless endangerment each.

One mom, Brittany Lyn Laws, 29, 215 Grandview St., Mount Carmel, pleaded guilty to felony reckless endangerment and was sentenced to one year in prison. She must serve 30 percent of her sentence before she is eligible for parole.

Laws was accused of using oxycodone, valium and other drugs in the nine months prior to the birth of her child Nov. 24, 2010.

WHY? The unborn baby is just a lump of tissue--a part of the woman's body! Why should it matter that she was pregnant anymore than they she had breasts? Tissue is tissue!