pregnant women's rights
A spirited group of protesters gathered outside New York Gov. David Paterson's office today elicited the governor's promise to sign legislation that would prohibit the shackling of incarcerated pregnant women during labor and after delivery.
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Why is the man who murdered Dr. Tiller being allowed to give interviews from jail?
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The Polish Ministry
of Health is presenting new threatening plans that would limit protection for
women and children within the existing healthcare system.
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Will the Senate Judiciary Committee ask Sotomayor about her position on Roe's role in protecting all the rights of pregnant women?
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A judge puts an HIV-positive pregnant woman in prison based solely on his concern for her unborn child, implicitly questioning her ability to protect her and her baby's health.
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By Anna Clark, RH Reality Check May 21, 2009 - 8:00am
The nation with the highest adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the industrialized world has not figured out how to meet the educational needs of pregnant and parenting teens. In fact, we're going the other direction - gutting the too-rare programs that have developed to meet the unique needs of teen parents.
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By Amanda Allen, Law Students for Reproductive Justice May 20, 2009 - 8:00am
Yes, pregnancy discrimination lawsuits are on the rise -- because employers continue to discriminate against women based on pregnancy!
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Women whose pension payments are reduced because they took pregnancy-related leave during their employment when pregnancy discrimination wasn't illegal aren't entitled to full pension benefits now, the Supreme Court ruled today.
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By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) April 3, 2009 - 8:00am
We admit it. National Advocates for Pregnant Women opposes laws that create an incentive for women to terminate otherwise wanted pregnancies.
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By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) March 26, 2009 - 8:00am
Supporters of "egg-as-person" laws don't mention that if the unborn have legal personhood rights, pregnant women won't.
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