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In 2006, Alabama passed a "chemical endangerment" law that made it a felony for a child to be "exposed to, to ingest or inhale, or to have contact with a controlled substance, chemical substance, or drug paraphernalia". An investigation by ProPublica has found that over 500 women were charged in the decade since the law passed.