Annual Report 2002
January 20, 2003
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Controversial “cash-for-sterilization” California group comes to New York
Pregnancy Justice Press Release, PRESS RELEASE, October 7, 2002
New York City, NY - CRACK (Children Require A Caring Kommunity) is a Southern California-based organization that "offers" $200 in cash to any woman or man who uses drugs or alcohol in exchange for their willingness to undergo sterilization or take long-term birth control.
Pregnancy Justice Condemns C.R.A.C.K. Campaign Targeting Methadone Clinics
Pregnancy Justice released an open letter to Barbara Harris, executive director of Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (C.R.A.C.K.) and Project Prevention, condemning a misleading statement by the organization regarding methadone treatment during pregnancy.
Arresting Pregnant Women for Drug Use
September 27, 2001
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Compiled by Drug Policy Alliance. Sept 27, 2000.
What’s Wrong With Presuming Neglect of Drug Exposed Newborns?
The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion: Some Initial Thoughts on the Connections, Intersections and the Effects
Lynn Paltrow*, 28 Southern University Law Review 201 (2001).
While many people view the war on abortion and the war on drugs as distinct, there are in fact many connections and overlaps between the two. Their history, the strategies used to control and punish some reproductive choices and those to control the use of certain drugs, the limitations that exist to access to reproductive health care and drug treatment, and the populations most harmed by those limitations are remarkably similar.
Pregnant Drug Users: Scapegoats of the Reagan/Bush and Clinton Era Economics
By: Sheigla Murphy and Paloma Sales
INTRODUCTION
In this paper we present analyses of two National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded studies entitled, "An Ethnographic Study of Pregnancy and Drug Use" (Rosenbaum and Murphy 1991-94) and "An Ethnography of Victimization, Pregnancy and Drug Use," (Murphy 1995-98). Our goal is to explicate the ways in which pregnant drug users in the San Francisco Bay Area experienced, coped with and protected themselves from increasing stigmatization, abuse and punishment while enduring a period of fiscal retrenchment of government assistance programs.
Year 2000 Overview: Governmental Responses to Pregnant Women Who Use Alcohol or Other Drugs
This report, Year 2000 Overview: Governmental Responses to Pregnant Women Who Use Alcohol or Other Drugs, surveys the nation and provides a comprehensive review of every state and federal law specifically touching on the issue of pregnant women's drug use.
Punishment and Prejudice: Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women
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Throughout the late 1980's and still today, "crack moms" and "crack babies" are the subject of vigorous public debate. Much of this public discussion has been governed by speculation and medical misinformation reported as fact in both medical journals and in the popular press and has been extremely judgmental and punitive in many instances.
Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons and the Threat to Roe v. Wade
January 13, 1999
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By: Lynn Paltrow, 62 Albany Law Review 999 (1999)
Roe v. Wade marked only the beginning of the struggle for reproductive justice for all women. Many women fall outside of its "core" protections. Among these are drug addicted pregnant women.