A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder in Multiple U.S. States
propublica.org
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.
e; added "in Multiple U.S. States" to the title
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How horrifying to have your wanted, stillborn child cut open like a high school science experiment. And what about infants who were able to take a breath before dying shortly after birth?
I think it's good practice to carry out an autopsy. But boiling it down to a single piece of evidence which doesn't proof neither if the baby was or wasn't stillborn is insane. On top of that even if it proofed that the child was stillborn or not, it still doesn't proof that the child was subject to murder.
Either the article is leaving out specific details relevant for the case to enrage the reader or the justice system is reeeally shit.
Spoilers: It's both.