Dangers While Pregnant:: Prescription Drugs, Illegal Drugs, Poverty, Lack of Nutrition and Health Care, in Vitro Fertilization, Hazardous Chemicals

Research about women and pregnancy has not been entirely truthful. Many doctors and researchers claim that an illegal drug such as crack cocaine is detrimental to an unborn child. Granted, it is a good idea not to use drugs while pregnant, but the information presented is misleading.

Scientists state that it is perfectly okay to take legal medications such as fertility drugs. Society claims mothers that use crack cocaine while pregnant, will cost society more money to care for before and after birth, but in fact they forget to mention that in vitro fertilization is very costly. Important factors that do affect pregnancy are ignored, factors such as nutrition, poverty, and lack of health care.

Living in poor conditions such as these have a greater impact on the unborn child versus using illegal drugs, the majority of women who use illegal drugs live in poverty.

1. Illegal Drugs: the affects of illegal drugs can be detrimental to an unborn fetus. The infant will experience with-drawl symptoms the first day of life.
2. Lack of Nutrition: without a healthy diet an unborn child' s health is at stake. The child can be born with low birth weight, premature, and lack of development.
3. Living in Poverty: Unsanitary living conditions cause the same birth defects. Women who live in poverty can not afford to eat healthy foods, the more unhealthy foods a pregnant woman ingests the more the fetus is harmed.
4. Lack of Health Care: Women living in poverty can not afford health care. If a pregnant woman is using drugs, she is not likely to seek that health care because of Law Enforcement.
5. Prescription Drugs: Can be just as harmful as illegal drugs. The effects of prescription drugs can cause the fetus to die, develop disease later in life and more.
6. In Vitro Fertilization: Is very dangerous, because of the enormous amounts of chemicals within the process of in vitro fertilization. The cost of in vitro babies is enormous to begin with, not to mention the health care necessary after birth.
7. Hazardous Chemicals: Very harmful to any individual. Can be found in water, soil, plants, garden, and so on. The effects of hazardous chemicals can be astronomical. People who live in Hyde Park Augusta Georgia; suffer the effects of hazardous chemicals. Many Hyde Park residents have cancer related to toxins, their children have developed asthma, ADHD, and other learning disabilities. Hazardous Chemicals create air pollution causing premature births and low birth weight.