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Hospitals have no business testing for drugs without cause, which they do in the US per the article: "Hospitals across the country routinely drug test people coming in to give birth." Screening people routinely for drugs is some police state shit.
You're right, it doesn't say that she didn't consent. It also doesn't say she did either, the article simply doesn't address it.
However, I just cannot imagine a scenario, where someone would be consenting to a drug test without coercion, can you? Why would she? If you didn't take drugs, there's no benefit. If you did take drugs and you want the doctors to know, tell them. If you took drugs and you don't want the doctors to know, you don't consent. And that doesn't even take into account false positives. I don't see any conceivable reason why anyone would subject themselves to a drug test where no possible outcome would be positive for you. So, please enlighten me, how are these completely voluntary drug tests with zero benefit to the test subject so common?
Add to that, that these tests are not good enough for random testing. You have too many false positives, so you must have additional indicators of drug use to even consider them from a purely scientific perspective.
Having a baby is a cause for drug testing though.
Please explain?