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.
On January 24, 2018, NAPW consulting attorney Dan Arshack argued before the Arkansas Court of Appeals on behalf of Anne Bynum, a woman who experienced a stillbirth at home and was convicted for "concealing a birth" and sentenced to six years in prison after she was alleged to have waited several hours to bring the fetal remains to the hospital and did not tell her mother about her pregnancy.
NAPW recently helped get serious felony criminal charges dismissed for two women targeted in relationship to pregnancy.
A case against an Idaho woman who faced a felony injury to a child charge after alleged drug use while pregnant was dismissed in April 2017. NAPW worked together with the Idaho woman's defense lawyer who argued that the child injury statue could not be used to criminalize pregnancy or actions while pregnant, and that if the court judicially expanded the law for such a prosecution, that would violate the woman's constitutional rights.
On September 15, NAPW's Founder and Executive Director Lynn M. Paltrow presented "Addressing Maternal, Fetal, and Child Health in the Midst of the Opioid Epidemic" at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), addressing the consensus in the medical community that addiction is a public health issue and that treating drug use in pregnancy as a crime undermines the health of both women and children.
Next year's Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice conference will be February 23-24, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma.
Take Root features speakers and leaders from the South and Midwest. Over its 8 year history, this inspiring event has brought people together to connect around a shared commitment to reproductive justice, human rights and resistance.
In long-awaited court action, all charges were finally dismissed against Kenlissia Jones, the African-American Georgia woman who had been arrested based on the claim that she had used medication she obtained online to terminate a pregnancy. National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a national nonprofit legal advocacy organization, provided substantial legal assistance to Ms. Jones and her criminal defense lawyer.
March 22, 2017
This fact sheet from NAPW explains how Trumpcare targets Planned Parenthood and is likely to impact pregnant women in particular. Click here for a pdf of the fact sheet.
What Can You Do?
March 06, 2017
Now, perhaps more than ever, people who care about reproductive, racial, and social justice
and human rights want to know what they can do. Attached please find your copy of:
INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.
The President-elect has stated that there must be some form of punishment for women who have abortions.
But, National Advocates for Pregnant Women has known for some time that punishing pregnant women - whatever the outcome of their pregnancies - is a present reality, not a hypothetical possibility.
