Download file: People v. Jones, No. 93-5, Transcript of Record (Siskiyou County, July 28, 1993) (Attached as Exhibit C)

Download file: People v. Jauregui, San Benito County No. 23611, Transcript of Record (Aug. 21, 1992) (Attached as Exhibit B)

Download file: State Assemblyman W. Craig Biddle sworn statement on intent of California’s murder statute, Penal Code §187

Indiana v. Purvi Patel

Despite extensive public outcry, including petitions to the prosecutor, Purvi Patel was charged with feticide and ͞negligent treatment of a child͟ in Indiana in 2013-14 for allegedly seeking to terminate her pregnancy at home with medication.

Arkansas v. Anne Bynum

NAPW represented Anne Bynum as counsel on her successful direct criminal appeal. In Arkansas, local law enforcement alleged that Ms. Bynum took misoprostol pills to induce an abortion (although in fact she planned to deliver the baby, and had an adoption plan in place) . Her pregnancy ended in a stillbirth late at night while she was in her home . Following the stillbirth, she safeguarded the remains and slept for several hours before helping to get her son ready and off to school.

December 21, 2018
NY: Rinat Dray v. Staten Island University Hospital et al. (Supreme Court Appellate Division 2d Dep't)

NAPW is in the Ohio Supreme Court supporting a young woman charged with homicide after experiencing a stillbirth. For now, the issue is whether her confidential statements to her doctors while she was pregnant can be admitted into evidence against her at trial.

May 31, 2018
In May 2018, NAPW and Community Legal Services of Philadelphia (CLS) submitted an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the case of In re L.B. In this appeal, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is reviewing whether giving birth to a substance-exposed infant can support a child abuse finding against the new mother.

NAPW and NYU Law School's Reproductive Justice Clinic, along with more than twenty leading international human rights and public health experts, submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the "Commission") in support of Manuela, a woman who died in prison after being convicted under El Salvador's total abortion ban.

The Wisconsin Medical Association, American Medical Association and other leading medical groups, as well as Amnesty International and other international human rights groups, and the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel are all supporting National Advocates for Pregnant Women’s (NAPW) litigation opposing Wisconsin Act 292, a law that permits detention, incarceration, and forced medical interventions on pregnant women.