pregnant women

The California Legislature unanimously passed a bill to protect pregnant women from shackling; last-minute lobbying puts this important bill at risk.

For the second session in a row, the California Legislature has unanimously passed a bill to prohibit the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women. Will the Governor sign it into law?

We must put an end to policies that undermine basic constitutional principles in order to lock up the pregnant women and mothers who need health care most.

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.

Pelosi speaks out on the anti-choice assault on women's rights, a Thai airline seeks to hire transgender women as flight attendants, women use less epidural anesthesia during labor when they control their own pain relief, and a heart-breaking attack on women's shelters in Afghanistan.

Starting today, we'll post a quick set of links to those stories we missed or didn't have time to write about each day. Scan the links and click through to read more!

Pennsylvania is poised to become the tenth state to restrict the shackling of pregnant women in labor or childbirth, once the governor signs the bill.

The American Medical Association takes a stand against shackling pregnant women in labor.

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.