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Is Locking Up Pregnant Women the New Cure for State Financial Woes and Mental Health Problems?

by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

March 30, 2011 - 3:05pm (Print)

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.

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Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock Up Pregnant Women

by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

March 7, 2010 - 9:30am (Print)

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.

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NAF and ACLU Ask Court To Preclude Voluntary Manslaughter Charge In Roeder Trial

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

January 27, 2010 - 12:13pm (Print)

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the National Abortion Federation, the ACLU, and the ACLU of Kansas in the trial of Scott Roeder asking the court to preclude Roeder from arguing his anti-abortion beliefs in support of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.

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