Lynn Paltrow's blog

Why is it, we wonder, that when it comes to decisions regarding women and pregnancy, science is so often ignored?

A recent New York Times story relies on anecdote and innuendo to focus attention on pregnant drug users rather than actual facts or the real economic and ethical issues that need to be addressed.

Lawmakers in Alabama and Indiana are moving to arrest and incarcerate pregnant women with mental illness and drug addiction, and charge them with harming their fetus.  National Advocates for Pregnant Women is working to defend the basic rights of pregnant women suffering from mental illness, severe depression, or any other health problem to be treated like other human beings experiencing the same problems.

Ms. Palin, if you are among those who believe that political change can come about non-violently, without hate, violence, or the threat of violence, now would be an excellent time to say so.

Amendment 62 in Colorado is sponsored by a Fetal Separatist movement that seeks to legally separate pregnant women and the fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses inside them, depriving women of their right to life and liberty.

Organizations from the March of Dimes to the American Medical Association oppose the arrests and prosecutions, based on "child abuse," of pregnant women who use drugs, but South Carolina continues to jail pregnant women and mothers otherwise denied treatment.

Comforted by the fact that the Utah legislature "revised" the bill on miscarriages?  Don't be.  Its main purpose is not to advance a "culture of life," but to advance laws that permit imprisonment of pregnant women.

Supporters of "egg-as-person" laws don't mention that if the unborn have legal personhood rights, pregnant women won't.