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Article: The fight for reproductive rights: hard-won protections for reproductive freedom are increasingly under attack, says this advocate for pregnant women. She fights back in the courts.(executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women Lynn Paltrow)(Interview)
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- August 1, 2003
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Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, Lynn Paltrow--executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) in New York City--believes that women still face an array of limitations on their reproductive decision-making, including health and welfare policies that can undermine motherhood, especially for low-income and minority women.
Her work focuses on how efforts to expand fetal rights and the war on drugs intersect as well as on dangerous legal precedents for the health and well-being of women and families in general. Fetal rights advocates, Paltrow says, have fought hard to convince police, prosecutors, and judges that applying child abuse laws to fetuses ...