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National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) works to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women, and those who are most vulnerable - low income women, women of color, and drug-using women.

Trust Women Week


NAPW is proud to join with over 50 other reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations in the Silver Ribbon Campaign's first-ever Trust Women Week Virtual March, powered by MoveOn.org.

Click the image above to join NAPW at the virtual march, and join the conversation on the Twitter hashtag #TrustWmn.

NAPW interns rally for universal access to emergency contraceptives

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Up Late Jan. 23?
January 23, 2012

Staff Attorney Farah Diaz-Tello will be on WBAI's Health Action at 11PM Eastern, talking to Bob Lederer about threats to reproductive justice.

Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice
January 23, 2012

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Register for the 2nd annual southern regional reproductive justice conference. This conference will bring together activists, students & scholars to discuss numerous aspects of the regional RJ movement in the South, focusing on the power of organizing and DIY youth activism to bring attention to the numerous intersections and aspects of RJ.
Where: University of Oklahoma, Norman OK
When: February 24-25, 2012
Register: here.
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Drug War Propaganda and Junk Science No Basis for Child Neglect and Abuse Finding

NAPW at Drug Policy Alliance's Reform Confernce 2011

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Liberty for Pregnant Women in the “Land of the Free”

January 19, 2012
Does the United States have the market cornered on liberty? What does liberty look like for childbearing women in the Land of the Free? more »

NAPW ally Dr. Robert Newman responds to "pill-baby" hysteria

January 13, 2012


Activist Update: Victory for Native American Women

December 19, 2011


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