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Increasingly, states are using existing ornew laws to criminalize the behavior of pregnant women, with the claim that fetuses might be in danger. This poses a serious threat to women like Alicia Beltran--who, while pregnant, was sent to a rehab facility...

The New York Times highlights the case of Alicia Beltran, a pregnant Wisconsin woman who was locked up because she admitted to a physician’s assistant that she had had been hooked on Percocet (oxycodone). Beltran had stopped using Percocet...

By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring a dynamic group of activists, advocates, and academics interested in and committed to reproductive...

The sentencing of Patel for feticide comes amidst a growing and ongoing crackdown on reproductive rights. In an interview with Democracy Now!, Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, spoke about the case...

Lynn Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin report on the frightening implications of fetal personhood. Each year, six million women in the United States become pregnant. Approximately four million women go to term, one million have abortions, and nearly one million...