Program areas at NAPW
Legal/advocacy:legal defensepregnancy Justice works directly as co-counsel or counsel on numerous cases to defend the rights of pregnant people, and builds coalitions with defense lawyers, social workers, activists, advocates, and people working in the medical and public health fields. Pregnancy Justice challenges prosecutions, legislation, and policies that dehumanize pregnant people, invent separate legal rights for fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses, and expand the war on drugs to harm pregnant people and undermine their rights.advocacypregnancy Justice provides allies and activists with analysis of proposed legislation and policies; comment and testify on proposed laws across the country; support initiatives that affirm the civil and human rights of pregnant people and oppose efforts that threaten those rights; and advise advocates, activists, and policymakers at the local, state, federal, and international levels.as part of this work, Pregnancy Justice links local and state-based activists, leaders, and organizations to national medical, public health, and social Justice resources.
Organizing:pregnancy Justice organizes at both the local and national levels. Pregnancy Justice helps to support and encourage grassroots partners, trains people directly affected by punitive policies to become advocates, mobilizes state-based coalitions to action, and sponsors major conferences and continuing education programs that inspire effective advocacy and activism. Pregnancy Justice also works at the national level to mobilize medical and health experts, organizations, and academics to speak out against punitive and counterproductive policies.
Public education:pregnancy Justice uses a variety of strategies to educate the public, policymakers, advocates, and activists about myths and misinformation relating to Pregnancy, abortion, Pregnancy loss, labor, birth and substance use by pregnant people. Pregnancy Justice challenges destructive and dehumanizing stereotypes about pregnant people and advocates for evidence-based, humane policies that ensure pregnant people are treated with dignity and that their families are not torn apart.