AP Story on Challenge to Alabama Arrests

August 07, 2008

An Associate Press story featured in Alabama and in papers and online media sources across the country discusses the NAPW and Southern Poverty Law Center amicus brief filed on behalf of more than 25 leading public health and advocacy groups. The story leads with:

Tiffany Michelle Hitson says she made the biggest mistake of her life by
using cocaine shortly before giving birth. About two-dozen national women's and
medical organizations say an even bigger mistake occurred next, when the new
mother was taken from her baby and sent to prison for a year.