She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be in Prison?

Adora Perez was 29 years old and 37 weeks pregnant when she woke up to deep cramps on the evening of December 30, 2017. She had been napping at her grandfather’s when the pain started. Around 10 p.m., her boyfriend and her teenage daughter drove Adora the five minutes to Adventist Health Center in their hometown of Hanford, California, and helped her past the parking-lot palm trees and through the sliding-glass doors of the white stucco building, where Adora had given birth several times before. Inside, the nurses recognized her immediately. Read Full Article »