Bailey v. Patterson & Parsons

How courts have described this case

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• finding because “a child does have a right to begin life with a sound mind and body,” viable fetus is a child under the existing child abuse statute and hann to it may be considered abuse
• mother's use of heroin close to baby's birth created substantial risk to the health of the child and constituted child abuse
• the protection of an unborn child's interest in life is bestowed at viability and injury to the fetus after that point is abuse
• a finding that a child is abused [as defined by Ohio statute] may rest solely on the mother’s prenatal conduct
• mother's use of heroin close to baby's birth created substantial risk to the health of the child and constituted child abuse
• mother’s use of heroin constituted abuse of viable fetus under child abuse statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).