The Fight for Reproductive Rights

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.