"Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons, and The Threat to Roe v. Wade" by Lynn M. Paltrow
November 15, 2018
Click here to access the full article: "Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons, and The Threat to Roe v. Wade" by Lynn M. Paltrow, published in Albany Law Review [Vol.
“Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons, and The Threat to Roe v. Wade” by Lynn M. Paltrow
Video recording of “American Poverty and Gender: Government Control and Neglect of Women Living in Poverty” now available online, and NAPW highlighted in UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ June 2018 report
In February 2018, timed to build upon the December 2017 fact-finding mission to the United States by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, NAPW co-hosted a discussion of the unique ways in which poverty affects women across the United States.
Read “Child Welfare and the Intended Consequences of the War on Drugs” by NAPW Senior Staff Attorney Aarin Williams
After moderating a related panel at the New School, NAPW Senior Staff Attorney Aarin Williams published a piece entitled “Child Welfare and the Intended Consequences of the War on Drugs” in the May 16, 2018 issue of Urban Matters: Ideas and Analysis from the Center for New York City Affairs.
U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Criticizes Detention of Pregnant Women in the U.S.
In July 2017, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a report criticizing the detention of pregnant women in the United States and highlighting the harsh Wisconsin law NAPW and our allies have been working to defeat.
Amnesty International Publishes Criminalizing Pregnancy: Policing Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs in the USA
Report features National Advocates for Pregnant Women's work to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of pregnant and parenting women
Over the course of three years, Amnesty International analyzed US criminal prosecutions of women who are pregnant and alleged to use drugs.
What Can You Do?
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.
NAPW: Movement in NY Case, Win in NJ & TN Conference Registration Open!
NAPW files amicus brief in N.Y. case
On July 24, NAPW filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief supporting Jennifer Jorgensen's appeal to New York's court of last resort in the case New York v. Jorgensen.
New York Times Reports: ‘Purvi Patel Could Be Just the Beginning’
Last week, an Indiana judge sentenced Purvi Patel to 20 years in prison for what she has consistently maintained was a miscarriage, becoming the first woman in the United States to be convicted of the crime of feticide for supposedly attempting to self-induce an abortion.
Don’t Judge Pregnant Drug-Using Women Based on Junk Science
December 19, 2014
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Pregnant, and No Civil Rights
On Saturday, November 7, 2014 The New York Times ran the op-ed, "Pregnant, and No Civil Rights," by NAPW's Executive Director Lynn Paltrow and Board President Jeanne Flavin. This commentary describes the shocking realities of the risks that anti-abortion and "personhood" measures pose for all pregnant women in the United States.