• CPS Reform: Hard Choices; Lawmakers Struggle Over Policy On Drug Babies
• Crimes & Laws Against Pregnant Women Using Illegal Drugs By State
• Pregnant Women & Their Babies: Drug War Casualties?
• Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies - Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy
• Medical, Public Health, and Public Advocacy Groups Excerpted Statements
• What's Wrong with Making it a Crime to be Pregnant and to have a Drug Problem

• What's Wrong with Presuming Neglect of Drug Exposed Newborns?
• Sample Brief challenging child removal based on evidence of drug use alone.
• Napw Analysis Of Washington D.C.'S: "Improved Child Abuse Investigations Amendment Act Of 2001" And The "Infant Protection Act Of 2001"

• The Treatment Cure, By Judy Appel , November 18, 2004.
• Facts on Treatment Costs v. Incarceration Costs
• Pregnant and Parenting Women, Access to Treatment in South Carolina Questions and Answers

A pregnant woman who uses drugs and a battered woman are often one and the same person. The articles below discuss the relationships between drug use and violent victimization as well the value of applying harm reduction concepts to both domestic violence services and drug treatment programs.

• Ruling on Housing Law a Blow to Battered Women
• Ways in which victimization may put women at increased risk for substance abuse
• The False Connection between Adult Domestic Violence and Alcohol
• Battered Women with Chemically-Involved Partners
• Applying Harm Reduction to Services for Substance Using Women in Violent Relationships, By Amy Hill
• Drugs, Pregnancy and Battering

• Top Medical Doctors, Scientists & Specialists Urge Major Media Outlets Not to Create "Meth Baby" Myth

• NY Times Letter: Crack Baby' Syndrome? (signed by 27 researchers)
• The Myth Of The 'Crack Baby'
• Slow Development in "Crack Babies" May Be Caused by Conditions of Urban Poverty, Says New Study
• Drug War Facts: Cocaine and Pregnancy
• Lindesmith Center: Cocaine and Pregnancy

• Policing Pregnancy
• 'Protectors' of Unborn Put Them in Peril
•  The Laci Peterson case is fueling interest in fetal protection laws. Sen. Bill Frist is urging passage of federal legislation called "Laci and Connor's Law." We'll discuss the issue from both sides with DOUG JOHNSON of the National Right to Life Committee and LYNN PALTROW of National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
• Abortion Foes Exploit a Murder to Kill Roe v. Wade
• The Unborn/Abortion Smokescreen
• NAPW Response to The Unborn Victims of Violence Act

• Why Caring Communities Must Oppose C.R.A.C.K./Project Prevention: How C.R.A.C.K. Promotes Dangerous Propaganda And Undermines The Health And Well Being Of Children And Families. By Lynn M. Paltrow
• CRACK Protest Press Release
• Facts About Drug Treatment
• Opposition to Coercion in Family Planning Decision Making
• Coast to Coast Organizing Against Crack (page 25) [PDF]
• NAPW Open Letter to C.R.A.C.K. Executive Director, Barbara Harris
• C.R.A.C.K. Concerns
• How Available Are Contraceptive Services In America Today?
• How Many Americans Should Be Sterilized?
• CRACK Comes to New York

• Wyndi Anderson
• Steven Miles
• Sherril Nell Babcock

• NAPW believes that this proposed rule is primarily a political statement intended to provoke controversy over Roe v. Wade and is designed to distract attention from pressing national issues regarding health care for Americans including low income women and children. Below please find NAPW's press release and comment on the proposed rule,sample comments from experts on so called "fetal surgery" and commentary and analysis on the final rule.

• Letter from Professors Lynn M. Morgan and Monica J. Casper
• Letter from Professor Anne Drapkin Lyerly
• NAPW response letter to the proposed regulations
• NAPW Press Release: SCHIP Regulation Change May Signal Shift in Experimental Treatment Policy
• The Unborn Smokescreen - Opinion Editorial
• Commentary on Final Rule : Including "Unborn Children" - "Excluding Pregnant Women."