Should a Pregnant Woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk?

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Should a Pregnant Woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk?

Introduction

Abuses during pregnancy are those behaviors that act or omission by the pregnant woman assault endangering the normal fetal development. Its gravity is given by the direct or indirect risk for development of the unborn child. Undoubtedly for the fetus to birth arrives in the best conditions of life, the mother should have been addressed, because prenatal care is crucial in how to be born baby. Shaken baby syndrome is a type of child abuse which ...