Angelique Robledo can pinpoint the moment she decided to make a change.
Inside a Maricopa OB-GYN facility in summer 2010, Robledo saw the image of her unborn son appear on a black-and-white monitor during her first ultrasound procedure. The image on the screen showed a small peanut with a tiny heartbeat.
“I was like ‘Oh my god, he’s real,’” said Robledo, now 20. “There really is something inside of me.”
Robledo said the realization came with a feeling of guilt. The young, soon-to-be mother, then 17, had smoked meth the night before — one of several drugs she’d tried as a Maricopa teen prior to the pregnancy.
With the first image of her son in front of her, she made a choice.
“That was the moment that I completely never touched it again,” Robledo said.
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