EPISODE · Oct 3, 2022 · 22 MIN
The sketchy test sending moms to prison
from Headlines From The Times · host Rowan Moore Garrity, Heba Elorbany, David Toledo, Shannon Lin, Madalyn Amato, Denise Guerra, Gustavo Arellano, Shani O. Hilton, Mark Nieto, Ashlea Brown, Kasia Broussalian, Mike Heflin, Kinsee Morlan, Mario Diaz, Jazmín Aguilera
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’
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There's this 400-year-old forensic test that scientists have long warned is unreliable when it comes to determining whether a baby was born dead or alive. So why is it still being used in many parts of Latin America?
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