caa a22 4500 388073837 CHVBK 20180307125156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0829320100006074 doi S0829320100006074 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0829320100006074 McCormack Thelma Institute for Social Research, York University Fetal Syndromes and the Charter: The Winnipeg Glue-Sniffing Case [Elektronische Daten] [Thelma McCormack] The relationship between scientific knowledge and legal discourse is raised once again by a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, a case involving a young Aboriginal woman who was pregnant and ordered by the court to remain in a drug treatment program at a health center until the baby was born. Her glue-sniffing habit was deemed dangerous to the normal development of the fetus. The Court held that her solvent-dependency did not justify the original court action, but both the Court and the various interveners disregarded the current state of our knowledge on the fetal syndromes. There is thus a continuing disconnect between the scientific understanding of fetal risk and the development of Constitutional law around women's reproductive rights. This paper reviews the case and follows it through the appellate process; we examine the research literature on fetal syndromes tracking the changes over time. Finally we comment on the interventions by the Winnipeg Child and Family Services, the Women's Health Rights Coalition, by The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and both The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1999 Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 77-99 0829-3201 14:2<77 1999 14 CLS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100006074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McCormack Thelma Institute for Social Research, York University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/2(1999), 77-99 0829-3201 14:2<77 1999 14 CLS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge