The sketchy test sending moms to prison

There’s a test used across Latin America to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive. And depending on the result, it could allow prosecutors to bring murder charges against mothers who might have had a still-born birth. And there’s an even bigger problem. This test is 400 years old and very unreliable.Today, how the so-called flotation test is sending women to prison for killing their newborns, when they say that they’re innocent. Read the full transcript here.Host: Gustavo ArellanoGuests: L.A. Times foreign correspondent Leila MillerMore reading:An unreliable 400-year-old test is sending mothers to prison for killing their newbornsAcross Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosenedThousands of feminists march in Mexico City: ‘I am scared to simply be a woman in Mexico’