In partnership with The Bronx Defenders, Movement for Family Power, NYCLU, Brooklyn Defender Services, Elephant Circle, and Ancient Song Doula Services, NAPW held two teach-ins covering the history of the family regulation system and its relationship to the war on drugs, CAPTA/CARA, and the NYC Commission on Human Rights' investigation into three hospital systems' drug testing policies and practices.
If Roe Goes – More Than Abortion is at Stake!
How Fetal Protection Laws Fail to Protect (And Even Hurt) Pregnant People
When laws are passed to "protect fetuses," what does that mean for pregnant people?
Join National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) for a panel discussion featuring leaders in social work, law, medicine, and birth justice about the direct impact of fetal protection laws on pregnant people.
When Pregnancy Is Used To Deny Patients Their Civil and Human Rights
Experts Address the Rights of Pregnant Patients to Informed Consent, Bodily Integrity, and Medical Decision Making
What happens when a pregnant patient exercises their right to medical decision making? Is there any justification to override a pregnant patient’s consent? Join NAPW for a discussion featuring leaders in bioethics, medicine, law and birth justice about pregnant patients' rights to informed consent, bodily integrity, and medical decision making and the trauma that forced medical interventions can inflict on pregnant people.
Policing Pregnancy Through the War on Drugs
NAPW Executive Director Lynn M Paltrow and Consulting Policy Counsel Deborah Small present at the Meharry Medical College: Henry W. Foster OBGYN Interest Group Reproductive Justice Conference.
www.NationalAdvocatesforPregantWomen.org
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In Defense of Roe
“In Defense of Roe” is a film documenting the groundbreaking 1989 conference that brought together leaders of the growing women of color reproductive rights movement with grassroots and progressive white women.
The conference was called in part as a response to the fact that mainstream groups who were organizing a march on Washington had not included women of color leaders in the planning or organizing of the march.
Arrests and Prosecutions of Pregnant Women, 1973-2020
In 2013, the Journal of Public Health Law and Policy published National Advocates for Pregnant Women (“NAPW”) peer-reviewed study documenting arrests, detentions, and equivalent deprivations of physical liberty of women between 1973 and 2005 in which being pregnant was a necessary element of the crime or a “but for” reason for the coercive or punitive action taken.
Pregnancies and Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States
See full factsheet here
Pregnancy and Drug Use
See full factsheet here
6/23 Webinar Recording Now Available
Missed the webinar but still looking for CE or DONA credit? Good news – you can watch the recording and still receive credits up until July 21st.
Watch the webinar recording and be sure to fill out the NASW affirmation form to obtain Wisconsin social work credit or DONA credit.
BREAKING: The murder charge against our client, Chelsea Becker, for experiencing a stillbirth is dismissed!
BREAKING: The murder charge against our client, Chelsea Becker, for experiencing a stillbirth is dismissed! This outcome comes after a 19-month legal battle challenging the legitimacy of a murder charge for experiencing a stillbirth. Stillbirth is NOT a crime! Read more here!
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