The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
Channel: Laura Flanders & Friends
Date: 2019-02-12

As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What has been the media’s role and have they done enough to make amends? We’ll talk to Lynn Paltrow, one of the lawyers representing incarcerated women, media critic Janine Jackson, and Suzanne Sellers who fell afoul of one of those laws in the 1990s. Then, a drill down with Lynn Paltrow about the threats to Roe and more.

Lynn M. Paltrow, JD is the Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR, and the host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin—a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country. Suzanne Sellers is the Executive Director for Families Organizing for Child Welfare Justice.