March 02, 2010
The following written statement was presented as part of the Universal Periodic Review Consultation process with the U.S. State Department. Pregnancy Justice has documented numerous cases of severe and often hidden abuses faced by pregnant women.
Pregnancy Justice Op Ed in San Francisco Chronicle
January 22, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007 (SF Chronicle)
On the Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade/Creating a true 'culture of life'
Lynn M. Paltrow
For the past 10 years, the term "culture of life" has been little more than window dressing for the hundreds of laws that limit access to abortion -- or advance the interests of fetuses, as if they existed separately from the pregnant women who carry them.
The prestigious Hastings Center Report, a journal "promoting thoughtful, balanced reflection on the ethical and social issues of medicine and medical science" published an article by Dr. Howard Minkoff and Lynn Paltrow, Pregnancy Justice Executive Director.
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Punishing Women for Their Behavior During Pregnancy: An Approach That Undermines the Health of Women and Children
January 13, 2006
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For more than a decade, law enforcement personnel, judges, and elected officials nationwide have sought to punish women for their actions during pregnancy that may affect the fetuses they are carrying (Gallagher 1987). Women who are having children despite substance abuse problems have been a particular target, finding themselves pros- ecuted for such nonexistent crimes as 3fetal abuse2 and delivery of drugs through the umbilical cord.
March 12, 2005
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By: Lynn M. Paltrow, published in Perspectives, Volume 13, No.3, Winter 2005
I started my career defending a woman's right to choose abortion and now run Pregnancy Justice, an organization that works on behalf of pregnant women and families.
January 24, 2005
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January 01, 2004
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August 10, 2003
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TRIAL Magazine (August 2003).
Hard-won protections for reproductive freedom are increasingly under attack, says this advocate for pregnant women. She fights back in the courts.
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, Lynn Paltrow—Executive director of Pregnancy Justice in New York City—believes that women still face an array of limitations on their reproductive decision-making, including health and welfare policies that can undermine motherhood, especially for low-income and minority women.
