I’m sure they have to report it once found. And more power to ‘em. These policies cleaned up the crack-baby epidemic after all.
There was a day when a lot of women showed up in the Emergency Dept. in full labor without a doctor and no prenatal care. Some of these women had syphilis and other STDs which could be passed on to the baby, so laws get passed and now everyone gets tested even if your risk is 0%. The crack “epidemic” led to some real horror stories in the delivery room. But how much of a problem was/is this? Most women have routine prenatal care and are not drug abusers or alcoholics. Why subject everyone even when there is no probable cause for concern? These screening/prophylactic policies should be changed to apply only to those who have not received prenatal care and “just show up” at the hospital ready to pop.
I sure if there’s a law mandating reporting, that it has a threshold, or says “above the legal limit” or something to screen out false positives and test variation. She only wiggled the needle a small fraction of what would have been required to cost her employees at the government their JOB, and it cost her her CHILD.