NAPW in the News

• More than 30 Oklahoma doctors call for end to criminalization of drug use during pregnancy | KFOR | December 2021
• Digital surveillance presents new threats to reproductive freedoms | Washington Post | December 2021
• Is it Legal to Order Abortion Pills Online? | Ms. Magazine| December 2021
• Hospital reports new moms over drug tests tripped by poppy seeds: lawsuit | New York Post| December 2021
• Moms drug tested while giving birth falsely test positive because they ate poppy seeds | Pix 11 | December 2021
• Lynn Paltrow featured on The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Parry: "Deep Dive, Childbirth" |WNYC| December 2021
• What Amy Coney Barret's Roe v. Wade Remarks Got Wrong About Adoption |Newsweek| December 2021
• How an Oklahoma women’s miscarriage put a spotlight on racial disparities in prosecutions | NBC News | November 2021
• Why We Can't Look Away from Brittney Poolaw's Case | Bustle | November 2021
• Pregnant woman shouldn’t be prosecuted for refilling pain pills, says Republican Alabama lawmaker | AL.com | November 2021
• ‘Her Heart Was Beating Too’: The Women Who Died After Abortion Bans |The New York Times | November 2021
• Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Lead to More Women Being Jailed for Miscarriages |Newsweek| November 2021
• When a Miscarriage is Manslaughter | The New York Times | October 2021
• When a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail Sentence | Rewire News | October 2021
• Advocates say an Oklahoma woman's manslaughter conviction due to her miscarriage is 'shameful' | Public Radio Tulsa | October 2021
• An Injustice of Miscarriage in Oklahoma Lands a Woman In Prison | The Los Angeles Times | October 2021
• Outcry Over Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Suffering Miscarriage | Newsweek | October 2021
• Criminal convictions for abortion, miscarriage? Texas abortion ban previews life without Roe v. Wade | The 19th | September 2021
• A mom was charged with child neglect for using medical marijuana while pregnant. The Arizona case could set a precedent. | The Lily News | September 2021
• Self-Managed Abortions Could Be Legally Riskier After Texas’s Six-Week Law, Advocates Say. | Buzzfeed News | September 2021
• She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be In Jail? | The Cut | September 2021
• Pregnant, Addicted, and Prosecuted | Jezebel | September 2021
• Pregnancy loss is common and traumatic. New legislation says employees need time off to heal. | USA Today | August 2021
• A New Bill Would Provide Time Off After a Miscarriage: ‘We're Not Just Workers' | NBC LX | August 2021
• "American Idol" Star Syesha Mercado's Baby Has Been Taken By Authorities, Sparking Outcry | BuzzFeed News| August 2021
• Advocates Challenge Arizona Court Ruling Medical Use of Marijuana During Pregnancy is Child Neglect | Ms. Magazine | August 2021
• Many people suffer pregnancy loss, then immediately get back to work. A new bill wants to change that. | The Lily | July 2021
• Phoenix Woman Who Used Marijuana During Her Pregnancy Appeals Child Endangerment Case | Phoenix New Times | July 2021
• Arizona Blacklisted Mom for Using Legal Medical Marijuana While Pregnant | The Daily Beast | July 2021
• Prescription fraud shouldn’t apply to pregnant Alabama woman who refilled prescription, lawyers say | AL.com | July 2021
• I'm pregnant, and I want to use CBD to ease my stress and discomfort. Is it safe? | Insider | June 2021
• Alabama mom faces felony for filling doctor’s prescription while pregnant | Advance Local | June 2021
• Alabama Would Like to Make It Possible to Prosecute Pregnant People for Taking Legal Prescriptions | Jezebel | June 2021
• Mom Faces Felony Charges For Taking a Drug Prescribed by Her Doctor While Pregnant | Reason | June 2021
• Judge dismisses murder charge against Central Valley woman whose baby was stillborn | LA Times | May 2021
• Judge drops murder charge in stillbirth | The Washington Post | 2021
• Central Valley Judge Drops Murder Charge Over Drug-Related Stillbirth | CBS Bay Area | May 2021
• California judge drops murder charge in stillbirth delivery | AP News | May 2021
• Judge drops murder charge against California woman who used meth before stillbirth delivery | East Bay Times | May 2021
• Judge Dismisses Murder Charge Against California Mother After Stillbirth | | The New York Times | May 2021
• Murder charges dismissed against Central Valley woman in connection to pregnancy loss | Fresno Bee | May 2021
• Judge Throws out case of woman accused of killing her unborn baby with meth | WhatsNew2Day | May 2021
• Judge dismisses murder charge against woman whose fetus was stillborn after she used meth | May 2021
• How About We Don't Charge Women Who Have Stillbirths With Murder? | Wonkette | May 2021 
• Lynn Paltrow on the Prosecution of Pregnancy | Lilith | March 2021
• Bail granted for woman who used meth before stillbirth | AP News | March 2021
• News 12 Bronx -- New Zealand Legistation for leave after miscarriage | News 12 Bronx | March 2021
• ‘Only in the Central Valley.’ Women charged with murder in connection to pregnancy loss | Fresno Bee | March 2021
• Two Women Were Charged With Murder After Delivering Stillborn Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Groups | Melody Heald | Bust | 2021
• MURDER CHARGES AFTER A STILL BIRTH: A FIGHT ON BEHALF OF WOMEN | Blog Talk Radio | February 2021
• "Pregnant People of Color are Bearing the Brunt of the War on Drugs"| The Progressive | Jan 2021

NAPW Authored

• Constitutional Rights for the “Unborn” Would Force Women to Forfeit Theirs | Lynn Paltrow | Ms. Magazine Online | April 2021
• Why I Refuse to Feel Hopeless About the Texas Abortion Case | Lynn Paltrow | Ms. Magazine Online | September 2021

• How to Give Yourself an Abortion | Jewish Currents | Jan 2020
• NCJW/Essex Holding Lunch & Learn 'Roe 2.0: The New Era of Reproductive Rights' | TAP Into | Jan 2020
• Trump Admin: Pregnant Travelers Could Threaten U.S. Security | Daily Beast | Jan 2020
• Media, Politicians Are Breeding Birth Tourism Myths | Immigration Reform | Jan 2020
• New Trump Rule Imposes Visa Rules for Pregnant Women | Nature World News | Jan 2020
• Obstetric violence is a real problem. Evelyn Yang's experience is just one example | The Washington Post | Feb 2020
• North Carolina Wants to Penalize Prenatal Substance Exposure | Talk Poverty | Feb 2020
• How an online search for abortion pills landed this woman in jail | Fast Company | Mar 2020
• How an online search for abortion pills landed this woman in jail | TheNewsTrace | Mar 2020
• Athena Film Festival highlights stories of unseen women across the world | Columbia Spectator| Mar 2020
• Supporters call Penn Yan midwife case a travesty, modern day witch-hunt | Finger Lakes 1 | Mar 2020
• Yates midwife, advocates talk | Finger Lakes Time | Mar 2020
• 10 ways to honor the work of motherhood during Women's History Month | The Washington Post | Mar 2020
• 'They Separated Me From My Baby' Hospitals are keeping newborns from their parents over coronavirus fears. | The Cut | Apr 2020
• Community-Based Doulas and Midwives | Center for American Progress | Apr 2020
• The Coronavirus Crisis Confirms That the U.S. Health Care System Fails Women | Center for American Progress | Apr 2020
• Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body: Jo Ardinger's Personhood | Brooklyn Rail | May 2020
• Repro Legal Helpline Relaunches to Better Respond to Increased Calls on Self-Managed Abortions | Ms. Magazine | May 2020
• The legacy of the 'crack baby' myth continues to criminalize pregnant people | Prism | May 2020
• Using Cannabis While Pregnant Does Not Impair Children's Cognition, Decades of Studies Suggest | Forbes | May 2020
• Study Suggests Cannabis Usage During Pregnancy Does Not Impair Fetal Development | Baby Gaga | Jun 2020
• Rising Voices for 'Family Power' Seek to Abolish The Child Welfare System | The Chronicle of Social Change | Jul 2020
• Drug users delivering stillbirths could face murder rap if this California case advances | Los Angeles Times | Aug 2020
• In 'Personhood,' Seattle filmmakers document the human cost of giving legal rights to embryos | The Seattle Times | Aug 2020
• Why the 2020 Census may be headed toward a serious undercount; Remembering homelessness advocate Mike Lee; a Central CA woman is charged with murder for a stillbirth | KPFA 94.1 (California) | Aug 2020
• Attorney general denounces murder charge over stillborn baby | Los Angeles Times | August 2020
• She Was Charged With Murder After Her Baby Was Stillborn. Now California's AG Has Stepped In. | The Daily Beast | Aug 2020
• California district attorney throws his support behind mother charged with murder after her baby was stillborn with high levels of meth | The Daily Mail | Aug 2020
• Policing and Punishing Pregnant Women: The Case of Chelsea Becker | Ms. Magazine | Aug 2020
• California's Attorney General Condemns Murder Charges Over a Stillbirth | The New York Times | Aug 2020
• AG Sides With Defendant on Stillbirth Murder Charge | Newser | Aug 2020
• Vermont Conversation: The implications of a conservative Supreme Court | Vermont Conversation | October 2020
• "Criminalizing a Constitutional Right" | The New York Review of Books | November 2020
• "With a woman in prison for a stillbirth, California’s murder law is tested" | The Los Angeles Times | November 2020
• "California attorney general says nine-months pregnant woman should NOT be charged with murder for causing the death of her unborn child after she smoked meth days before delivery | Daily Mail | November 2020
• "Policing Pregnancy" | Reveal | December 2020
• "Attorney General Becerra asks CA Supreme Court to intervene over criminal charges for pregnancy loss" | KFPA | December 2020

NAPW Authored

• June v. Gee: When the Issue Involves Pregnancy and Abortion Inconsistency Should Come as No Surprise | Lynn M. Paltrow | Feb 2020