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Tennessee law allows criminal charges against drug addicted mothers

by Nikki Montgomery

A new law in Tennessee that takes effect this summer will permit criminal charges against pregnant women who abuse drugs. Tennessee will be the only state where a woman can be prosecuted based on the potential impact her drug use can have on her unborn child. A woman will be able to get out of jail-time if they enroll in a treatment program.

In Tennessee 921 babies were born addicted to drugs just last year. What happens to these poor babies is horrifying.

ABC News got a chance to spend a few days in the Neonatal unit at a Tennessee hospital that specializes in these cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome.