Horrifying Precedent Of Prosecuting Mothers Of Stillborn Babies

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"Rennie Gibbs's daughter, Samiya, was a month premature when she simultaneously entered the world and left it, never taking a breath. To experts who later examined the medical record, the stillborn infant's most likely cause of death was also the most obvious: the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

But within days of Samiya's delivery in November 2006, Steven Hayne, Mississippi's de facto medical examiner at the time, came to a different conclusion. Autopsy tests had turned up traces of a cocaine byproduct in Samiya's blood, and Hayne declared her death a homicide, caused by "cocaine toxicity.""* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Nina Martin / Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/22/a_ter...