Pregnancy Justice in the News

• Our Collective Feminist Wishlist for 2023 | Ms. Magazine | December 2022
• ‘Pro-Life’ Senators Block Bill to Protect IVF | Jezebel | December 2022
• Anti-Abortion Republicans Block Bill To Give Pregnant Workers Basic Accommodations | Huffington Post | December 2022
• Free Vapes for Pregnant People Who Smoke | Filter | December 2022
• Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world | Reuters | December 2022
• Policing pregnancy: Wisconsin's 'fetal protection' law, one of the nation's most punitive, forces women into treatment or jail | Wisconsin Watch | December 2022
• Commentary: Republicans and billionaires are selling Americans a deadly caricature of "freedom" | Salon | November 2022
• Alabama woman jailed for using drugs during pregnancy wasn't pregnant, lawsuit says | AL.com | November 2022
• Alabama Woman Jailed for Using Drugs During Pregnancy Wasn't Even Pregnant | Jezebel | November 2022
• Opinion: Don't Report Your Abortion Patients to Law Enforcement | Medpage Today | November 2022
• To protect her twin baby, Texas woman was forced to seek abortion care out of state | Houston Public Media | November 2022
• Georgia's Attorney General Race Could Decide If Pregnant People End up in Prison | Jezebel | October 2022
• Georgia Says A Fetus Is A Person. The Implications Are Terrifying. | HuffPost | October 2022
• Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines | The New York Times | October 2022
• Prosecuting pregnancy loss: Why advocates fear a post-Roe surge of charges | ABC News | September 2022
• Update: Five of The Pregnant and Postpartum Women Jailed in Alabama Have Been Released | The Root | September 2022
• Alabama county ends practice of keeping pregnant women in jail awaiting rehab beds | AL.com | September 2022
• Cruel marijuana laws are turning pregnancy into a crime | Leafly | September 2022
• Pregnant Women in Alabama Are Being Jailed For Smoking Pot | High Times | September 2022
• Opinion: Is a fetus a 'person'? A fringe idea could be the next post-Roe v. Wade chapter | Miami Herald | September 2022
• She Wanted An Abortion. Now The Embryo Is Suing Her Doctors | Rolling Stone | September 2022
• Criminalized for Being Pregnant | The Nation | September 2022
• Lawmakers reject bill to criminalize drug use while pregnant | WyomingNews.com | September 2022
• Oklahoma is prosecuting pregnant women for using medical marijuana | The Frontier | September 2022
• National organization raising money for pregnant women and new moms held in Alabama jail | AL.com | September 2022
• They Lost Their Pregnancies. Then Prosecutors Sent Them to Prison | The Marshall Project, AL.com, The Frontier, The Washington Post | September 2022
• Is a Fetus a Person? The Next Big Abortion Fight Centers on Fetal Rights | The Washington Post | September 2022
• So-called 'crisis pregnancy centers' are surveilling clients and may help criminalize them, reproductive advocates say | Prism | August 2022
• A dying woman's forced C-section launched a fight over fetal rights | The Washington Post | August 2022
• Some Women 'Self-Manage' Abortions as Access Recedes | The New York Times | August 2022
• A Mother, a Daughter and an Unusual Abortion Prosecution in Nebraska | The New York Times | August 2022
• Teen and mother face charges in abortion-related case that involved their Facebook messages | CNN Live | August 2022
• Pregnancy outcomes may be increasingly scrutinized by law enforcement | NPR | July 2022
• The War on Drugs Has a Warning for Post-Roe America | The New York Times | July 2022
• Lawyers Preparing For Abortion Prosecutions Warn About Health Care, Data Privacy | The Texas Tribune | July 2022
• Texas laws say treatments for miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies remain legal but leave lots of space for confusion | The Texas Tribune | July 2022
• Post-Roe America Will Lead to Increased Criminalization of Pregnant Women. Here’s How to Protect Them | Ms. | July 2022
• More Pregnancy Outcomes Could Be Criminalized in a Post-Roe World | NowThis News | July 2022
• Pregnant woman's HOV ticket protest highlights legal challenges post-Roe | Good Morning America | July 2022
• Why Progressive Prosecutors Won't Save Us in a Post-Roe World | Mother Jones | July 2022
• Privacy concerns go beyond period tracking apps in a 'reproductive police state' | Prism | July 2022
• Texas Woman Challenges Traffic Ticket by Saying Her Unborn Fetus Counts as Passenger Post-Roe | Jezebel | July 2022
• HR Departments Are Scrambling Over Abortion Travel Policies | Intelligencer | July 2022
• Attorneys, physicians scramble to make sense of abortion ban | WyoFile | July 2022
• Biden Delivers Rousing Speech on Abortion, But His Executive Order Is Lackluster | Jezebel | July 2022
• A false positive on a drug test upended these mothers' lives | The Washington Post | July 2022
• The nightmarish reality of the GOP's hope for a total abortion ban | MSNBC.com | July 2022
• Pregnancy criminalization | MSNBC's "The Cross Connection" | July 2022
• The Coming Rise of Abortion as a Crime | The Atlantic | July 2022
• Losing a pregnancy could land you in jail in post-Roe America | NPR | July 2022
• With Roe overturned, experts say more women of color could be investigated for miscarriages. | Insider | July 2022
• We're Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We're Going Somewhere Worse | The New Yorker | July 2022
• Miscarriages are already criminalized. Pregnancy rights advocates fear it could get worse | 11Alive Atlanta | June 2022
• The biggest privacy risks in post-Roe America | The Verge | June 2022
• Without Roe V. Wade, Pregnant Women May Face Arrest For All Kinds Of Behaviors | Huffpost | June 2022
• She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common | The Guardian | June 2022
• In Dozens Of Cases, Courts Punish Men for Failing to Control Pregnant People's Actions | Jezebel | June 2022
• Season 6, Episode 8: Lynn Paltrow | Stories of Unconcious Bias podcast | May 2022
• If Abortion Is Illegal, Will Every Miscarriage Be a Potential Crime? | Mother Jones | May 2022
• More States Shield Against Rogue Abortion Prosecutions | Pew Charitable Trust | May 2022
• Why So-Called Personhood Laws Are the Next Big Threat After 'Roe' Falls | Rewire News | May 2022
• Adora Perez's Murder Charge Over Stillborn Baby Dropped By Prosecutors | Newsweek | May 2022
• The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy | New Republic | May 2022
• Black women in the South have been bracing for Roe's fall for decades | NBC News | May 2022
• How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Help Anti-Abortion Legislatures | Jezebel | May 2022
• Leaked Court Opinion Sparks Concerns About Abortion Prosecutions | NBC News 4 D.C. | May 2022
• Woman Charged With Murder for 'Self-Induced Abortion' Won't Be the Last | Vice | April 2022
• Texas DA drops murder charge against woman accused of self-induced abortion after reading actual law | Salon | April 2022
• How Not to Get Arrested for Miscarriage or Abortion: A Practical Guide | Jezebel | April 2022
• The Long, Scary History of Doctors Reporting Pregnant People to the Cops | Mother Jones | April 2022
• Woman faces Texas murder charge after self-induced abortion | The Associated Press | April 2022
• Lizelle Herera Abortion-Murder Charge 'Tip of the Iceberg,' Warns Nonprofit | Newsweek | April 2022
• After pursuing an indictment, Starr County district attorney drops murder charge over self-induced abortion | Texas Tribune | April 2022
• Murder charges dropped against Texas woman for 'self-induced abortion' | The Guardian | April 2022
• DA moves to dismiss a murder charge against a Texas woman accused of a self-induced abortion | Texas Public Radio | April 2022
• Kim Blalock Took Lawfully Prescribed Pain Killers During Pregnancy—And Was Charged With A Felony | Elle | April 2022
• Arizona Mother Accused of Child Neglect for Medical Use of Marijuana During Pregnancy Wins Appeal | Ms. Magazine | April 2022
• Alabama Senate debating banning pregnant women from buying medical marijuana | Alabama Public Radio | April 2022
• Alabama Wants to Force Women to Show a Negative Pregnancy Test to Access Medical Marijuana | Jezebel | April 2022
• Mother Accused of Child Neglect for Pot Use While Pregnant Wins Appeal | Phoenix New Times | April 2022
• Alabama medical marijuana bill requiring negative pregnancy test 'clearly unconstitutional,' opponents say | AL.com | March 2022
• Louisville judge erred in granting custody of fetus to its mother, appeals court rule | Courier Journal | March 2022
• Woman Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Stillbirth Had Her Conviction Overturned | Jezebel | March 2022
• Alabama Bill Would Force Women Who Want Medical Marijuana To Show Negative Pregnancy Tests | Marijuana Moment | March 2022
• This is The Anti-Abortion Movement's Next Big Move | Rewire News Group | March 2022
• California judge overturns 11-year prison term for woman whose baby was stillborn | LA Times | March 2022
• Meth, a mother, and a stillbirth: Imprisoned mom wants her 'manslaughter' case reopened | Cal Matters | February 2022
• Charges against Lauderdale County woman who filled opioid prescription while pregnant dropped | WAAY-TV Alabama | Februrary 2022
• Charge dropped against Alabama woman who renewed pain pill prescription while pregnant | AL.com | February 2022
• Anti-abortion movement's big plan | Salon | February 2022
• Eating Poppy Seed Cake Got This Pregnant Woman Reported to Child Services | Rewire News | February 2022
• Woman alleges Hoffman Estates hospital tested her for drugs without her consent before she gave birth, notified DCFS when she got a false positive | The Chicago Tribune | February 2022
• Under looming threat of criminalization, one new program seeks to help Oklahoma mothers with substance use disorders | KGOU | January 2022
• Doctors say methamphetamine use does not cause miscarriages | KGOU | January 2022
• Eggs Are Not People. But the Anti-Abortion Movement Wants to Change That. | Rewire News | January 2022
• She was charged with manslaughter after a miscarriage. | The Frontier | January 2022
• California AG: Don't file murder charges in stillbirths | The Washington Post | January 2022
• CA AG reinforces pregnant women can’t be charged with murder for pregnancy loss | Fresno Bee | January 2022
• California to Stop Prosecuting People for Pregnancy Loss | Jezebel | January 2022
• California said it would be a 'sanctuary' for reproductive rights. It just took a big first step. | The Lily | January 2022

Pregnancy Justice Authored

• The Threat of Murder Charges for Abortion Already Exists | Dana Sussman | Jurist | May 2022
• A World Without Roe | Purvaja Kavattur | Inquest | March 2022

• More than 30 Oklahoma doctors call for end to criminalization of drug use during pregnancy | KFOR | December 2021
• Digital surveillance presents new threats to reproductive freedoms | Washington Post | December 2021
• Is it Legal to Order Abortion Pills Online? | Ms. Magazine| December 2021
• Hospital reports new moms over drug tests tripped by poppy seeds: lawsuit | New York Post| December 2021
• Moms drug tested while giving birth falsely test positive because they ate poppy seeds | Pix 11 | December 2021
• Lynn Paltrow featured on The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Parry: "Deep Dive, Childbirth" |WNYC| December 2021
• What Amy Coney Barret's Roe v. Wade Remarks Got Wrong About Adoption |Newsweek| December 2021
• How an Oklahoma women’s miscarriage put a spotlight on racial disparities in prosecutions | NBC News | November 2021
• Why We Can't Look Away from Brittney Poolaw's Case | Bustle | November 2021
• Pregnant woman shouldn’t be prosecuted for refilling pain pills, says Republican Alabama lawmaker | AL.com | November 2021
• ‘Her Heart Was Beating Too’: The Women Who Died After Abortion Bans |The New York Times | November 2021
• Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Lead to More Women Being Jailed for Miscarriages |Newsweek| November 2021
• When a Miscarriage is Manslaughter | The New York Times | October 2021
• When a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail Sentence | Rewire News | October 2021
• Advocates say an Oklahoma woman's manslaughter conviction due to her miscarriage is 'shameful' | Public Radio Tulsa | October 2021
• An Injustice of Miscarriage in Oklahoma Lands a Woman In Prison | The Los Angeles Times | October 2021
• Outcry Over Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Suffering Miscarriage | Newsweek | October 2021
• Criminal convictions for abortion, miscarriage? Texas abortion ban previews life without Roe v. Wade | The 19th | September 2021
• A mom was charged with child neglect for using medical marijuana while pregnant. The Arizona case could set a precedent. | The Lily News | September 2021
• Self-Managed Abortions Could Be Legally Riskier After Texas’s Six-Week Law, Advocates Say. | Buzzfeed News | September 2021
• She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be In Jail? | The Cut | September 2021
• Pregnant, Addicted, and Prosecuted | Jezebel | September 2021
• Pregnancy loss is common and traumatic. New legislation says employees need time off to heal. | USA Today | August 2021
• A New Bill Would Provide Time Off After a Miscarriage: ‘We're Not Just Workers' | NBC LX | August 2021
• "American Idol" Star Syesha Mercado's Baby Has Been Taken By Authorities, Sparking Outcry | BuzzFeed News| August 2021
• Advocates Challenge Arizona Court Ruling Medical Use of Marijuana During Pregnancy is Child Neglect | Ms. Magazine | August 2021
• Many people suffer pregnancy loss, then immediately get back to work. A new bill wants to change that. | The Lily | July 2021
• Phoenix Woman Who Used Marijuana During Her Pregnancy Appeals Child Endangerment Case | Phoenix New Times | July 2021
• Arizona Blacklisted Mom for Using Legal Medical Marijuana While Pregnant | The Daily Beast | July 2021
• Prescription fraud shouldn’t apply to pregnant Alabama woman who refilled prescription, lawyers say | AL.com | July 2021
• I'm pregnant, and I want to use CBD to ease my stress and discomfort. Is it safe? | Insider | June 2021
• Alabama mom faces felony for filling doctor’s prescription while pregnant | Advance Local | June 2021
• Alabama Would Like to Make It Possible to Prosecute Pregnant People for Taking Legal Prescriptions | Jezebel | June 2021
• Mom Faces Felony Charges For Taking a Drug Prescribed by Her Doctor While Pregnant | Reason | June 2021
• Judge dismisses murder charge against Central Valley woman whose baby was stillborn | LA Times | May 2021
• Judge drops murder charge in stillbirth | The Washington Post | 2021
• Central Valley Judge Drops Murder Charge Over Drug-Related Stillbirth | CBS Bay Area | May 2021
• California judge drops murder charge in stillbirth delivery | AP News | May 2021
• Judge drops murder charge against California woman who used meth before stillbirth delivery | East Bay Times | May 2021
• Judge Dismisses Murder Charge Against California Mother After Stillbirth | | The New York Times | May 2021
• Murder charges dismissed against Central Valley woman in connection to pregnancy loss | Fresno Bee | May 2021
• Judge Throws out case of woman accused of killing her unborn baby with meth | WhatsNew2Day | May 2021
• Judge dismisses murder charge against woman whose fetus was stillborn after she used meth | May 2021
• How About We Don't Charge Women Who Have Stillbirths With Murder? | Wonkette | May 2021 
• Lynn Paltrow on the Prosecution of Pregnancy | Lilith | March 2021
• Bail granted for woman who used meth before stillbirth | AP News | March 2021
• News 12 Bronx -- New Zealand Legistation for leave after miscarriage | News 12 Bronx | March 2021
• ‘Only in the Central Valley.’ Women charged with murder in connection to pregnancy loss | Fresno Bee | March 2021
• Two Women Were Charged With Murder After Delivering Stillborn Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Groups | Melody Heald | Bust | 2021
• MURDER CHARGES AFTER A STILL BIRTH: A FIGHT ON BEHALF OF WOMEN | Blog Talk Radio | February 2021
• "Pregnant People of Color are Bearing the Brunt of the War on Drugs"| The Progressive | Jan 2021

Pregnancy Justice Authored

• Constitutional Rights for the “Unborn” Would Force Women to Forfeit Theirs | Lynn Paltrow | Ms. Magazine Online | April 2021
• Why I Refuse to Feel Hopeless About the Texas Abortion Case | Lynn Paltrow | Ms. Magazine Online | September 2021

• How to Give Yourself an Abortion | Jewish Currents | Jan 2020
• NCJW/Essex Holding Lunch & Learn 'Roe 2.0: The New Era of Reproductive Rights' | TAP Into | Jan 2020
• Trump Admin: Pregnant Travelers Could Threaten U.S. Security | Daily Beast | Jan 2020
• Media, Politicians Are Breeding Birth Tourism Myths | Immigration Reform | Jan 2020
• New Trump Rule Imposes Visa Rules for Pregnant Women | Nature World News | Jan 2020
• Obstetric violence is a real problem. Evelyn Yang's experience is just one example | The Washington Post | Feb 2020
• North Carolina Wants to Penalize Prenatal Substance Exposure | Talk Poverty | Feb 2020
• How an online search for abortion pills landed this woman in jail | Fast Company | Mar 2020
• How an online search for abortion pills landed this woman in jail | TheNewsTrace | Mar 2020
• Athena Film Festival highlights stories of unseen women across the world | Columbia Spectator| Mar 2020
• Supporters call Penn Yan midwife case a travesty, modern day witch-hunt | Finger Lakes 1 | Mar 2020
• Yates midwife, advocates talk | Finger Lakes Time | Mar 2020
• 10 ways to honor the work of motherhood during Women's History Month | The Washington Post | Mar 2020
• 'They Separated Me From My Baby' Hospitals are keeping newborns from their parents over coronavirus fears. | The Cut | Apr 2020
• Community-Based Doulas and Midwives | Center for American Progress | Apr 2020
• The Coronavirus Crisis Confirms That the U.S. Health Care System Fails Women | Center for American Progress | Apr 2020
• Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body: Jo Ardinger's Personhood | Brooklyn Rail | May 2020
• Repro Legal Helpline Relaunches to Better Respond to Increased Calls on Self-Managed Abortions | Ms. Magazine | May 2020
• The legacy of the 'crack baby' myth continues to criminalize pregnant people | Prism | May 2020
• Using Cannabis While Pregnant Does Not Impair Children's Cognition, Decades of Studies Suggest | Forbes | May 2020
• Study Suggests Cannabis Usage During Pregnancy Does Not Impair Fetal Development | Baby Gaga | Jun 2020
• Rising Voices for 'Family Power' Seek to Abolish The Child Welfare System | The Chronicle of Social Change | Jul 2020
• Drug users delivering stillbirths could face murder rap if this California case advances | Los Angeles Times | Aug 2020
• In 'Personhood,' Seattle filmmakers document the human cost of giving legal rights to embryos | The Seattle Times | Aug 2020
• Why the 2020 Census may be headed toward a serious undercount; Remembering homelessness advocate Mike Lee; a Central CA woman is charged with murder for a stillbirth | KPFA 94.1 (California) | Aug 2020
• Attorney general denounces murder charge over stillborn baby | Los Angeles Times | August 2020
• She Was Charged With Murder After Her Baby Was Stillborn. Now California's AG Has Stepped In. | The Daily Beast | Aug 2020
• California district attorney throws his support behind mother charged with murder after her baby was stillborn with high levels of meth | The Daily Mail | Aug 2020
• Policing and Punishing Pregnant Women: The Case of Chelsea Becker | Ms. Magazine | Aug 2020
• California's Attorney General Condemns Murder Charges Over a Stillbirth | The New York Times | Aug 2020
• AG Sides With Defendant on Stillbirth Murder Charge | Newser | Aug 2020
• Vermont Conversation: The implications of a conservative Supreme Court | Vermont Conversation | October 2020
• "Criminalizing a Constitutional Right" | The New York Review of Books | November 2020
• "With a woman in prison for a stillbirth, California’s murder law is tested" | The Los Angeles Times | November 2020
• "California attorney general says nine-months pregnant woman should NOT be charged with murder for causing the death of her unborn child after she smoked meth days before delivery | Daily Mail | November 2020
• "Policing Pregnancy" | Reveal | December 2020
• "Attorney General Becerra asks CA Supreme Court to intervene over criminal charges for pregnancy loss" | KFPA | December 2020

Pregnancy Justice Authored

• June v. Gee: When the Issue Involves Pregnancy and Abortion Inconsistency Should Come as No Surprise | Lynn M. Paltrow | Feb 2020