The Morning Mail From the Journal Sentinel readers

'COKE BABY' HAS RIGHTS, TOO

If the recent incident involving the notorious "cocaine mom" does not
provide enough evidence that the state and/or county should intervene in
known cases of fetal neglect, then how valid is the supposed concern of
these governmental agencies in cases of child neglect?

Does it not make sense for the government to intervene before these
children are born into a world of poverty and strife? What kind of life is
in store for the cocaine mom's first child and her asyetunborn one in
light of her inability to maintain a stable and sober state of mind?

As a longtime teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools, and having seen
firsthand many of my students pregnant and unwed, I know the struggles they
face and they are not strung out on drugs. A known addict should not
have the right to continuously neglect her unborn child. Her life is her
own to ruin, but the child has a right to live.

Raymond Roberts

Dallas, Texas