NAPW Public Education in the Classroom and Beyond (Fall 2018)
December 21, 2018
Over the last few months, NAPW has had the opportunity to speak to students, faculty members and the public around the country on a range of issues, including: birth justice, the criminalization of pregnancy, gender-discriminatory advanced directive laws, obstetric violence and more.
Vote “No” on Amendment 2 in Alabama on November 6th!
Alabama’s Ballot Measure Would Impact All Pregnant Women and People Who Want to Be Pregnant
Voters in Alabama must defeat Amendment 2. The ballot measure’s supporters claim that it will only impact abortion.
Alabama’s Ballot Measure Would Impact All Pregnant Women and People Who Want to Be Pregnant
Voters in Alabama must defeat Amendment 2. The ballot measure’s supporters claim that it will only impact abortion. But Amendment 2 would make it state policy—under all of Alabama’s laws—to “recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.
On April 4, 2018, a mid-level New York appeals court ruled against Rinat Dray, reminding us of the enormous challenges women face when they seek redress for obstetric violence through the court system.
In this case Ms. Dray had gone to Staten Island University Hospital to deliver her third child.
On January 12, Mayor de Blasio's office announced that the city will be relocating the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims (honored as the father of modern gynecology despite the fact that his medical experiments were performed on enslaved Black women) and take several additional steps to inform the public of the statue's historical context.
On Monday, December 4th four justices of the Appellate Division of New York Supreme Court heard arguments in the Dray case. Rinat Dray is a mother who is suing Staten Island University Hospital and doctors there because, pursuant to a secret (not disclosed to patients) hospital policy, they forced her to have cesarean surgery even though she clearly refused.
Join us for the 8th annual Take Root: Red State Perspective on Reproductive Justice conference, February 23rd-24th, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma!
The activist potential of people in the red states has not been effectively encouraged, nurtured, or sustained.
Join NAPW at Revolution Books in New York City 10/5 to hear NAPW board member Dr. Khiara Bridges speak about her new book: The Poverty of Privacy Rights.
"Dr. Bridges' book exposes the deeply-rooted and systematic 'disenfranchisement of the rights to privacy' of poor pregnant women in the U.S. The book tells the hidden story of the dehumanizing government invasion of every corner of their lives.
Who is Dr. J. Marion Sims and what is a statue honoring someone who experimented on enslaved Black women doing in East Harlem, New York?
Controversies over statues memorializing racism (and sexism) are not limited to one region of the United States.
Who is Dr. J. Marion Sims and what is a statue honoring someone who experimented on enslaved Black women doing in East Harlem, New York?
Controversies over statues memorializing racism (and sexism) are not limited to one region of the United States.
