Abortion Issue Divides, Distracts Us From Common Threats and Threads
March 12, 2005
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By: Lynn M. Paltrow, published in Perspectives, Volume 13, No.3, Winter 2005
I started my career defending a woman's right to choose abortion and now run National Advocates for Pregnant Women, an organization that works on behalf of pregnant women and families.
January 24, 2005
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January 03, 2005
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subject to debate By: Katha Pollitt, The Nation magazine, January 3, 2005
Another holiday season—and only a year after the last one. How did that happen? Probably you are feeling a bit tapped out just now, what with having given your savings, your house and your firstborn to MoveOn, ACT and similar.
January 01, 2004
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August 10, 2003
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TRIAL Magazine (August 2003).
Hard-won protections for reproductive freedom are increasingly under attack, says this advocate for pregnant women. She fights back in the courts.
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, Lynn Paltrow—Executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) in New York City—believes that women still face an array of limitations on their reproductive decision-making, including health and welfare policies that can undermine motherhood, especially for low-income and minority women.
The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion: Some Initial Thoughts on the Connections, Intersections and the Effects
January 31, 2001
Lynn Paltrow*, 28 Southern University Law Review 201 (2001).
The War on Drugs and The War on Abortion: Some initial thoughts on the connections, intersections and the effects
While many people view the war on abortion and the war on drugs as distinct, there are in fact many connections and overlaps between the two.
OUR COMMON STRUGGLE
January 12, 2001
By Lynn Paltrow
The first person I saw when I arrived at the Second National Harm Reduction Conference in Cleveland, Ohio last October was the Reverend Howard Moody. Reverend Moody is a great hero of mine, and not only because of his current work organizing clergy to speak out against the drug war.
Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons and the Threat to Roe v. Wade
January 13, 1999
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By: Lynn Paltrow, 62 Albany Law Review 999 (1999)
Roe v. Wade marked only the beginning of the struggle for reproductive justice for all women.
Criminal Prosecutions Against Pregnant Women: National Update and Overview
January 31, 1992
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This documents the cases of an estimated 167 women who have been arrested on criminal charges because of their behavior during pregnancy or because they became pregnant while addicted to drugs.
