Linda C. Fentiman is Professor at the Elisabeth Haub Law School at Pace University. She is the author of Blaming Mothers: American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health (NYU Press, March 2017, hardcover).

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Pregnant Women and Mothers Are Being Criminalized By Their Care Providers
Under the guise of protecting children, American law makes motherhood even harder.
Linda C. Fentiman
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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