Soros-backed advocates battle newborn drug tests with deadly results

Why do doctors sometimes perform a drug test on a pregnant woman or a newborn?One might think it’s because a mother under the influence might have difficulty caring for an infant, or because of potential health complications for a baby who’s been exposed to drugs or alcohol.No, says activist attorney Miriam Mack: It’s because drug testing “is so effective in achieving what this country has always been after, which is to maintain a social hierarchy [and] white supremacy.”Mack, senior legal counsel at the Movement for Family Power, made this assertion last month in “From the Delivery Room to the Courtroom: Evaluating and Challenging Drug Test Evidence,” a webinar for lawyers and medical professionals.In it, she condemned our current child-welfare system (or “family separation” system, as she called it) as the modern equivalent of “chattel slavery,” Indian boarding schools and orphan trains.“Eugenics ..

.continues to drive who the United States deems worthy of reproductive autonomy, dignity, family creation and integrity,” she declared.Mack’s radical conspiratorial ideology is bad enough.Worse is that it’s evidence that activists are still pushing the notion that drug use during pregnancy is a minor matter that should be hidden from health and child-welfare authorities.Those activists include the Pearlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law School and the George Soros-funded Drug Policy Alliance, the webinar’s sponsors. Speakers included Mishka Terplin of the group Doing Right by Birth, who complained about widespread false drug-test positives (due to eating a poppy-seed bagel, or an epidural administered during birth) that, she said, routinely cause a newborn’s removal from a mother’s care.Never mind the use of secondary tests to confirm a screening test’s accuracy.Moreover, her claim that states automatically remove children to foster care after a positive drug test is fabricated.A confirmed positive more likely results...