Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court announced its unanimous ruling in New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency v. Y.N. This decision rejects a lower court finding that a mother may be charged with civil child abuse and neglect because her newborn exhibited the transitory and treatable side effects of methadone treatment that the woman received during pregnancy.
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December 22, 2014
Contact: Lynn Paltrow, (212) 255-9252, lmp@advocatesforpregnantwomen.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 7, 2014
Contact: Lynn Paltrow, NAPW, (212) 255-9252
Cherisse Scott, SisterReach, (901) 310-5488
Nationwide Coalition Calls on Department of Justice to Denounce Enhanced Sentence for Pregnant Woman
Today, a coalition of 48 reproductive justice, drug policy reform, women’s rights and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to renounce enhanced criminal penalties for women on the basis of pregnancy.
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January 9, 2014
Contact: Kylee Sunderlin
(212) 255-9252
info@advocatesforpregnantwomen.
McKenna v. Miller Decision (11-14-13 )
Press release
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CONTACT: Sarah E. Burns: (845) 820-1671
Lynn M. Paltrow: (212) 255-9252
Katharine Bodde: (212) 607-3372
NEW YORK APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS THE RIGHTS OF PREGNANT WOMEN
New York (November 14, 2013): Today, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, rejected a lower Family Court’s finding that a woman’s decision to move from California to New York while pregnant was so “reprehensible” that it could bar New York courts from hearing her child custody case.
Amici Curiae Brief of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York Civil Liberties Union, MotherWomen, Inc.,National Organization for Women in New York City, Choices in Childbirth, Service Women's Action Network, Planned Parenthood of New York City, and the Reproductive Justice Clinic at The New York School of Law.
NJ: New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services v. Y.N., In the Matter of P.A.C., a Minor
August 01, 2013
Amended Brief of Amici Curiae Experts in Maternal and Fetal Health, Public Health, and Drug Treatment in Support of Defendant-Petitioner
List of Amicus Curiae: Experts in Maternal and Fetal Health, Public Health, and Drug Treatment in Support of Defendant-Petitioner
We are pleased to let you know that today more than 40 leading United States and international medical and psychological researchers and experts released a letter to media outlets and policy makers countering misleading and alarmist reporting about pregnant women and prescription opiate use.
