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The sketchy test sending moms to prison
Manage episode 342912738 series 2925680
There’s a test used across Latin America to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive. And depending on the result, it could allow prosecutors to bring murder charges against mothers who might have had a still-born birth. And there’s an even bigger problem. This test is 400 years old and very unreliable.
Today, how the so-called flotation test is sending women to prison for killing their newborns, when they say that they’re innocent. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times foreign correspondent Leila Miller
More reading:
An unreliable 400-year-old test is sending mothers to prison for killing their newborns
Across Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosened
Thousands of feminists march in Mexico City: ‘I am scared to simply be a woman in Mexico’
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Manage episode 342912738 series 2925680
There’s a test used across Latin America to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive. And depending on the result, it could allow prosecutors to bring murder charges against mothers who might have had a still-born birth. And there’s an even bigger problem. This test is 400 years old and very unreliable.
Today, how the so-called flotation test is sending women to prison for killing their newborns, when they say that they’re innocent. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times foreign correspondent Leila Miller
More reading:
An unreliable 400-year-old test is sending mothers to prison for killing their newborns
Across Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosened
Thousands of feminists march in Mexico City: ‘I am scared to simply be a woman in Mexico’
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