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NAPW wins cases and brings new constituencies to the fight for reproductive and social justice through our public education and strategic communications work.
In many areas of law and policy - pregnancy provides - an excuse to deny women their fundamental constitutional and human rights.
Securing reproductive health and rights for all people, including pregnant women, requires collaborative, intersectional work to eliminate racism and other forms of discrimination.
NAPW develops and implements a variety of public education and communications strategies to expose connections between issues – such as the efforts to prohibit women from having abortions, historic efforts to prohibit people from using alcohol, and current efforts to prohibit people from using certain drugs. NAPW identifies and challenges the less recognized attacks on Roe v. Wade and reproductive freedom through “personhood” measures, feticide laws, gender discriminatory advance directive laws, and drug policies that set precedent for using the criminal law system to address other public health issues such as pregnancy and pregnancy outcome.
NAPW inspires and informs. Through our public education efforts, we remind people that there are not two different kinds of women – those who have abortions and those who have babies. They are the same human beings just at different times in their lives. And, NAPW teaches that whether people identify as “pro-choice” or “pro-life” they have shared interests in ensuring the health and dignity of all pregnant women whatever the outcome of their pregnancies.
NAPW provides our expertise to a wide range of sources including national media, local newspapers, online outlets, medical journals and documentary film. NAPW also speaks to diverse audiences at conferences, continuing education programs, forums and other gatherings. We also produce our own videos and sponsor Webinars such as Racism, Reproductive Justice, & the Monument to Dr. J. Marion Sims. In addition, we use our resources to support local activists to write and publish in their own communities.
NAPW conducts research and produces articles and commentary that help us win cases and debunks the junk science and medical misinformation used to undermine the reproductive health, rights and personhood of pregnant women. Through our public education efforts, we expose decades of misinformation and political posturing about pregnancy and drug use and take every opportunity to correct the misinformation behind destructive and dehumanizing stereotypes about pregnant women, drug users, and the Black, Brown and rural white mothers disproportionately targeted for state surveillance and control.
NAPW also organizes and sponsors catalytic conferences and continuing legal education programs that have sparked new collaborations, spurred the creation of new organizations and motivated new people to take action for reproductive and social justice. Our first major conference in 2002 addressed the broad implications for all pregnant women (not just those seeking to have an abortion) of establishing separate rights for fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses. In 2007, NAPW organized an unprecedented National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, that brought together advocates for both birthing rights and abortion rights, recognizing that the same women who have abortions also give birth and all have shared interests in ensuring the health and rights of pregnant women. We have also held major continuing education programs in New York and Tennessee giving people working in the fields of child welfare and criminal law the opportunity to hear from actual experts on issues relating to pregnant women and drug use. Our New York program resulted in much greater and more zealous advocacy for low-income mothers in the child welfare system and our conference in Tennessee, co-sponsored by the National Perinatal Association, helped bring about the end of Tennessee’s Fetal Assault Law in 2016. That law had authorized the arrest of women in relationship to their pregnancies for such things as attempting to have an abortion and using any amount of any controlled substance.
Stay informed about NAPW's work, opportunities for activism and learning through our website; Activist Updates, and social media.
From October 7th to October 9th, 2014 Lynn Paltrow, NAPW Executive Director, met with lawyers, students, activists, coalition-builders, and local leaders in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville, South Carolina to advocate for the issues of reproductive justice that NAPW, New Morning Foundation, Tell Them SC, and the South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families have long been working to address. For more information about Ms. Paltrow's talk at the College of Charleston, visit http://www.tellthemsc.org/lynn_paltrow_lecture_cofc.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, NAPW’s Research & Program Associate, Laura Huss, gave a webinar as part of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) Webinar Wednesday series, “If You Care About Pregnancy Discrimination, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice.” The webinar included Laura from NAPW, Cherisse Scott from SisterReach, Keely Monroe at LSRJ, and Kelli Garcia at NWLC. The webinar and the accompanying slideshows are now archived and available to listen here.
NAPW's Soros Justice Fellow, Kylee Sunderlin JD, spoke at the 2014 Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) Conference in Arlington, VA. On Sunday, September 28, 2014, Ms. Sunderlin presented on the following two panels: (1) Unique Perspectives: The Hidden Consequences of the War on Drugs, and (2) What About the Children?: Families and the War on Drugs. Ms. Sunderlin brings unique expertise to NAPW in civil child welfare and drug policy, specifically related to opioid use and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Check out the SSCP2014 Conference website for more information about the weekend.
NAPW's Staff Attorney, Farah Diaz-Tello, and Board President, Jeanne Flavin, gave an evening lecture at Texas Christian University on Monday, September 15th on "Seeking Justice for Women and Families: An Academic and Activist Partnership." This event was co-sponsored by the University's Women and Gender Studies, the Departments of Social Work, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s and Men’s Programs. Visit this webpage for more information.
The weekend of July 25 - 28, 2014, NAPW's Director of Legal Advocacy, Sara Ainsworth, and Research & Program Associate, Laura Huss, attended and spoke at the "Standing Our Ground: Raising Our Voices against Reproductive Oppression and Violence against Women" conference and rally in Jacksonville, Florida. Hosted by SisterSong and the Free Marissa Now Campaign, this weekend included a Reproductive Justice 101 training, a Reproductive Justice Institute, and a direct action march. The march to the Duval County Unified Courthouse was an effort to stand in solidarity with Marissa Alexander and in opposition to the reproductive injustices that this case and legislation has made public.
NAPW Soros Justice Fellow, Kylee Sunderlin, attended the Whitehouse/Portman Senate Women & Addiction Forum sponsored by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
The forum included nationally-recognized researchers, practitioners, policymakers and Members of Congress to help identify policy priorities to help women in treatment for addiction and their recovery. The event highlighted three key issue areas to be addressed: Women and Addiction: Treatment & What Works; Women, Addiction and Motherhood; The Role of Trauma as a Factor Contributing to Addiction, and Relapse & Recidivism in Women. This was the second in a series of bipartisan convenings to help identify a strategy to elevate and advance addiction treatment and recovery nationwide and develop an agenda for the next Congress.
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, spoke in Vancouver, BC, Canada on “Challenging Drug Prohibition & The Regulation of Reproduction and Mothering.” More information about this free public forum can be found here. The event was sponsored by the SFT Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities, and Mental Health & the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition.
NYU School of Law Carr Center for Reproductive Justice - NYU School of Law Reproductive Justice Clinic - held their first annual conference on April 1, 2014: "Reproductive Rights Law: Where is the Woman?" NAPW's Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, was a featured speaker at the conference. Visit the conference website for further information.
If you were unable to attend, you can now stream or download the MP3 recording of this powerful evening here.
Also watch NAPW's short video that premiered that evening here: "Project Prevention: Mothers and Children Speak Out"
On October 10, 2013 at 11:30 am, Lynn Paltrow, NAPW Executive Director, will give a common hour lecture at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ms. Paltrow's lecture is sponsored by the College's Department of Women's & Gender Studies and will focus on "Roe v. Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration."
The event is open to the public and will occur at the Mayser Gymnasium. Visit the event's webpage for more information.
Lynn Paltrow speaking opportunity: "40 years after Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
Consider bringing NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, to your campus to discuss: "40 years after Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration" Roe v. Wade: What does it mean today? How can you make it relevant to all generations and communities?
On June 26, 2013, at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN, Demia (Butler University’s student chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance); Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University; and Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice (IRCRC) co-hosted a community education event entitled "Experts Discuss Suicide, Mental Health, and Healing: What Helps and Should Pregnant Women Be Treated Differently?"
Experts Dr. Laura Miller, Stephen C. McCaffrey, and Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds spoke about suicide, mental health, and healing and their relationship to the Bei Bei Shuai case that is set for trial in September 2013.
NAPW co-sponsored the event along with 12 other local and national organizations: American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Indiana Chapter; Backline; Demia (Butler University student chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance); Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University; Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice (IRCRC); Law Students for Reproductive Justice at Indiana Maurer School of Law; Mental Health America of Indiana; National Alliance on Mental Illness Indiana; National Organization for Women, Indiana Chapter; National Perinatal Association.
NAPW reported on the success of the event here, and the video archive of the forum is available to watch here on NAPW’s website.
On June 25, 2013, Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, spoke at the Innocence Project's summer brown bag lunch lecture series that welcomes summer interns from a variety of local organizations. NAPW's summer intern class - including legal and non-legal students - attended Ms. Paltrow's talk, as well as each weekly talk this summer by leaders in the fields of social, criminal, and reproductive justice.
The University of Michigan hosted a Reproductive Justice conference from May 29 - May 31, 2013 on "Reproductive Justice: Activists, Advocates, Academics in Ann Arbor." NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, and Jeanne Flavin, NAPW Board President & Fordham University Professor of Sociology, attended the conference and spoke on a panel about "Cultivating Collaborations: Academics and Advocates Discuss Partnerships." Additionally, Ms. Paltrow led a working session on "Mass Incarceration, 'War on Drugs,' and Reproductive Justice." Further information about the conference can be found on this website.
MSNBC News Anchor Thomas Roberts planned to host NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, live on Tuesday, May 28th. The interview has been postponed as a result of the recent updates on Trayvon Martin's upcoming trial. We will post about the rescheduled interview date when Lynn will speak to Thomas Roberts about the arrests of and forced interventions on pregnant women and the Mississippi Supreme Court case of Nina Buckhalter.
On May 20, 2013, WORTH (Women on the Rise Telling HerStory) hosted a conference entitled "From Punishment to Wellness" addressing a public health approach to women and the war on drugs. This conference, hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), came out of the recent publication by NYAM and the Drug Policy Alliance - "Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach for Drug Policy." NAPW supported the conference as a community partner and assisted in conference planning. Lynn Paltrow, NAPW Executive Director, also appeared on a panel about "Aligning Policy to a Public Health Approach." The successful conference hosted about 250 attendees. See conference flyer below and download conference program here.
On Saturday, April 26, 2013, SUNY New Paltz Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program hosted a conference on "Reproductive Justice - 40 Years After Roe v Wade." NAPW Staff Attorney, Farah Diaz-Tello, spoke on a panel entitled "Beyond Whether to Bear or Beget: Protecting Pregnant and Parenting Women" with former NAPW Director of Legal Advocacy, Emma Ketteringham, and former NAPW Inter, Dinah Adames.
NAPW Executive Director Lynn Paltrow gave a public lecture at Princeton University on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 entitled: "Forty Years After Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration."
In a two-part continuing legal education (CLE) program at the Queens County Bar Association's Child Welfare Court Improvement Project, NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, conducted two events with an expert and attorney about drug use and the child welfare system.
On April 23, 2013 Ms. Paltrow lead the program with Managing Attorney of Bronx Defenders Family Defense Practice, Emma Ketteringham, (also former NAPW Director of Legal Advocacy) to address "Considering the role of race and drug policy in child protective cases." The second event on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, was conducted with Columbia University Assistant Professor and Research Scientist, Dr. Carl Hart, PhD, about "Drug Use, Drug Effects, and the Role of Science and Experts in Child Protective Cases."
Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, spoke as a keynote speaker on April 5, 2013 at the New Jersey Women's and Gender Studies Consortium event at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. This consortium works to maintain the strength, visibility, and development of interdisciplinary women's and gender studies at numerous New Jersey colleges and universities.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 7:00 pm, Executive Director Lynn Paltrow spoke at Butler University's Diversity Program Women's History Month lecture series. Her talk, "Indiana and the New Jane Crow: The Prosecution of the Bei Bei Shuai," was promoted and reported by local media The Indianapolis Star's 해외사이트 순위Tim Evans and Diana Penner, respectively. Thursday, March 28, 2013 she was the keynote speaker at IPFW's Women's Studies Program's "Women's Reproductive Rights: A Historical and Global Perspective" event series for Women's History Month speaking on "Forty Years after Roe v. Wade: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration." Her final event on Friday, March 29, 2013 at Indiana University's Mauer College of Law in Bloomington, IN was hosted by IU's Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ), Feminist Law Forum (FLF), and the American Constitution Society (ACS), entitled "Indiana and the New Jane Crow: Using the Prosecution of of Bei Bei Shuai to Create a System of Separate and Unequal Law for All Women."
NAPW continued to support the organization and planning of the Third Annual Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice Conference.
The successful conference took place from February 15-16, 2013 in Norman, Oklahoma, with over 250 "red state" activists advocating for Reproductive Justice. NAPW attended and spoke at the conference and supported first-time "red state" advocates to also attend.
Read media about the event's success and impact. We look forward to next year's fourth annual - February 21-22, 2014!
On January 25, 2013, NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) Executive Director, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, appeared on Moyers & Company. Bill Moyers interviewed Lynn and Jessica after the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade to examine and discuss the issues behind the reproductive rights debate.
In advance of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, 2013, the Center for American Progress (CAP) held a lively debate on January 16, 2013 on the strategies reproductive rights activists can use over the next 40 years to secure the full promise of Roe. As our country’s demographics rapidly change, what does Roe mean to the rising electorate? What does the base of supporters look like now and in the future? How will the success in securing near-universal contraceptive coverage affect the landscape? What strategies can be employed—legal, policy, organizing, communications, and more—to engage new supporters and to ensure that Roe provides meaningful protections for all women?
NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, spoke at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary on December 6, 2012 at 5:30pm.
Her talk focused on "Drug Policy and the Rights of Pregnant Women and Children" and engaged members of Open Society Foundation, CEU students and faculty, and local activists.
Farah was featured in a documentary, "Freedom for Birth," about the human rights of pregnant women and the Human Rights in Childbirth conference in the Hague in March of 2012. The documentary premiered on Sept 20, with nearly 900 screenings throughout the world. Farah attended the New York City screening at the Museum of Motherhood, and spoke about NAPW's birth justice work on a panel after the film with sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman, journalist Jennifer Block, and attorney Elitsa Golab of the International Cesarean Awareness Network for an audience of 75 birth workers. Visit the website and watch the documentary here.
Felipe Luciano interviews Lynn and discusses mother's rights, racism, and the new war on reproduction. To listen to the show download here.
Megan McKenzie is a strong, resilient woman who had the courage to fight back when the State of South Carolina charged her with both civil and criminal child abuse for giving birth to a healthy, beautiful baby. The state claimed her newborn tested positive for marijuana, and while Ms. McKenzie didn't test positive for marijuana and more importantly she was providing loving, excellent care for her daughter, the prosecution and so-called child protective services proceeded with their actions against her. NAPW was part of the team that helped Megan McKenzie fight back and, eventually, win. As a result of her experiences, Megan has become a fierce advocate on behalf of other women who are similarly experiencing punitive state interventions and, as demonstrated in this BBC interview, is increasingly becoming a national and international spokesperson on these issues. She is pictured above speaking at NAPW's recent 10th Anniversary celebration.
Read the essay Killing for Life Returns by Dr. Carol Mason, author of the book Killing for Life and Oklahoma-based NAPW board member.
Obama, the Bishops and the "Right to Life"
Read Lynn Paltrow's latest commentary on The Huffington Post.
The continuing education program Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts in Medicine, Social Work and the Law Have to Say was held on February 11, 2009 at the NYU School of Law. The program was co-sponsored by National Advocates for Pregnant Women, The NYU Silver School of Social Work and NYU School of Law. The following is a list of materials distributed during the program which may be useful for those who would like to learn more about issues covered in the program.
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