A Pennsylvania woman is suing a Pittsburgh hospital for allegedly collecting her urine without her consent, testing her for drugs, and reporting a false positive to a state investigative agency, resulting in her being investigated for child abuse, The Associated Press reports. This marks the second time in a few years that the hospital in question has been sued for a similar course of action.
Back in November 2017, Cherell Harrington went to Pittsburgh’s UPMC’s Magee-Women’s Hospital to give birth to her third child. While there, hospital staff collected her urine without her consent and tested it for drugs. She claims that the test came back positive for marijuana.
The baby did not test positive for marijuana. And as regards Harrington’s drug test, rather than confirm the positive test with a second, more thorough test, hospital staff instead reported the results to Allegheny County’s Office of Children, Youth and Families.
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