On Saturday, November 7, 2014 The New York Times ran the op-ed, "Pregnant, and No Civil Rights," by Pregnancy Justice'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.
Pregnant, and No Civil Rights
Media Breakthrough – How Anti-Abortion Measures Harm All Pregnant Women
As many of you know, The New York Times recently ran a front page story about the Alicia Beltran case that Pregnancy Justice helped to file with lead counsel, Wisconsin Attorney Linda S. Vanden Heuvel, and the Reproductive Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law.
Experts Challenge Findings in FL Task Force Report on Rx Drug Abuse & Newborns
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 4, 2013
Contact: Robert G. Newman, MD, MPH
Phone: 212-523-8390
Email: rnewman@icaat.
Florida Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse & Newborns, February 2013 Final Report: An Inadequate Assessment of the Needs of Women, Children, and Families
Toward a “Pro Lives” Perspective that Values the Lives of Pregnant Women and the Well-Being of Our Nation
By Jeanne Flavin and Lynn Paltrow
(This commentary appears on Mobilizing Ideas a production of The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame)
As other contributors to this series have observed, “pro life” and “pro choice” do not adequately capture the dimensions and diversity of opinions and experiences that people have with regard to abortion and, as we will make clear, a whole lot more.
Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women’s Legal Status and Public Health
January 25, 2013
Lynn Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin
Abstract: In November 2011, the citizens of Mississippi voted down Proposition 26, a “personhood” measure that sought to establish separate constitutional rights for fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses.
New Study Reveals the Impact of Post-Roe v Wade and ‘Pro-Life’ Measures
On January 15, 2013, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law published a study, "Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health," written by Lynn M. Paltrow, Pregnancy Justice Executive Director, and Jeanne Flavin, Professor of Sociology at Fordham University and Pregnancy Justice Board President.
“Roe v. Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
January 14, 2013
Lynn M. Paltrow, American Journal of Public Health, 2013, Vol. 103, No. 1
Abstract: All pregnant women, not just those who seek to end a pregnancy, have benefited from Roe v Wade. Today’s system of mass incarceration makes it likely that if Roe is overturned women who have abortions will go to jail.
Women, Abortion and Civil Disobedience
August 24, 2011
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Lynn M. Paltrow
NOVA Law Review
Vol 13. No. 2, Spring 1989
Missed Opportunities in McCorvey v. Hill: The Limits of Pro-Choice Lawyering
August 17, 2011
Lynn M. Paltrow
New York University Review of Law & Social Change
Vol.35, No. 1, 2011
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This article uses the McCorvey v. Hill case to illustrate how the pro-choice movement and traditional lawyering approaches have missed critical opportunities to use attacks on Roe and other anti-abortion cases as a way to build alliances across the range of issues and movements necessary to protect the right to choose abortion, and more fundamentally the personhood of pregnant women.