‘Native children belong in Native communities’: Tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule
One morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families. New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, had just issued a directive mandating the state’s child welfare department seek custody of all newborns who had been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. Some parents wondered whether medications … Read more