Miscarriage of Justice
The federal "partial-birth" abortion ban has grave implications for all pregnant women, not only those seeking to end pregnancies.
By Lynn M. Paltrow American Prospect Web Exclusive: 04.19.07
[Last week] the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first federal law that bans an abortion procedure for all women and all doctors in all states.
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Wed. March 21, 2001
Statement of Lynn Paltrow, Esq., on Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 99-936
U.S. Supreme Court Agrees That Searching and Arresting Pregnant Women at Hospital Violates United States Constitution
Statement of Lynn Paltrow, Esq.
It is safe to say that South Carolina has imposed the most punitive policies toward pregnant drug using women of any state. On October 27, 1997, in a case called Whitner v. State, the South Carolina Supreme Court declared that viable fetuses are "children.
September 22, 2005
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In September of 2005, Pregnancy Justice had an extraordinary opportunity to test the theory that by building on the lessons learned from our clients, our concurrent work on drug policy reform, and Terry McGovern's research on building grassroots pro-choice activism, we could begin to go on the offensive in our efforts to advance reproductive and social justice in America.
December 11, 2003
By: Silja J.A. Talvi, The Nation magazine, December 11, 2003
Regina McKnight is doing twelve years in prison for a stillbirth, carving out a dangerous intersection between the drug war and the antichoice movement. In the eyes of the South Carolina Attorney General's office, McKnight committed murder.
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.
