Non-consensual unsalable article te...

Non-consensual unsalable article tests administered by the Medical University of southern Carolina violated the Fourth Amendment rights of maternity patients, according to a March 21 U greatest Court ruling in Ferguson v City of Charleston. The hospital's policy mandated physic tests for women it identified as likely mix with drugs users. The tests were used as evidence of criminal activity. unless the plaintiffs claimed the criteria, including lack of prenatal care, were discriminatory. Nine of the 10 plaintiffs were black. Last month The Chicago Reporter originate that drug testing in local hospitals disproportionately affected black babies. garble County Hospital uses some of the same guidelines as the southern Carolina hospital.

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