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If you missed any part of the groundbreaking,
cutting-edge National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of
Pregnant and Birthing Women, fear not! We have audio-recorded the
entire summit and video-recorded selected sessions that you may order
individually or as an entire package. Click here to view the ordering
form.
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Yes! You Can Still Attend the 2007 Summit
On-Site registration will be available at the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, Friday, January 19, Saturday, January 20 and Sunday, January 21, 2007 at the Hilton Airport Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, GA.
Read about our the extraordinary speakers and program.
At this late date, we are unable to provide any financial or resource support for travel or lodging. If you are traveling from out-of-town and are looking for a Summit hotel roommate, a local Atlanta Summit homestay opportunity, or hoping to find a local Atlanta rideshare to or from the Summit, we encourage you to go to http://spaceshare.com/napw/.
The day rate for the Summit is $80; the low-income rate is $50. Children are free under 10, but no child care will be available for anyone who registered after December 2006. Children 11 and up are welcome as well with a requested 20$ per child per day to help cover the expenses of breakfast and lunch.
Thank you for your support and interest. We look forward to seeing you at the Summit.
Can't make it? Information about how to obtain recordings of the Summit Sessions and material from the event will be posted on this website after Feb 1, 2007.
Need to Ship Something to the Summit?
If you need to send material for distribution at the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant Women please send it addressed to:
Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel
Attention: Isolde Huber, Sr. Events Manager, for [NAME of PERSON WHO WILL PICK IT UP]
1031 Virginia Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30354
Please Note on the Package that it is:
For NAPW Summit
Guest who will claim this box arrives January ___, 2007
If multiple boxes, please also include on the label "1 of 2" or "2 of 2" and so on...
Children at the Summit
NAPW Summit 2007 is a family-friendly space. As many of you know already, partners, children and others are welcome to stay at the hotel at the Summit participant's expense. Children are welcome in Summit sessions when supervised by parents.
Summit volunteers are coordinating an on site child-care co-operative for the children (age 10 and under) of pre-registered parents/guardians.
This opportunity is only available to parents/guardians who:
1) pre-registered by December 2006
2) have let us know before January 10th, 2007 that they are seeking to participate in the child-care co-operative and
3) are willing and able to contribute time providing child care during part of the day or days that they will be using the co-op.
If you are such a parent/gaurdian, you must write an email before January 10th to: childcare@advocatesforpregnantwomen.org.
Please write in the subject line "Summit Childcare" and
include in the contents of the message:
1) that you would like to know more about the co-operative,
2) the number and age of the children you are brining,
3) the exact dates you and your children will be participating in the co-op.
Please remember that you will not be able to participate in the child-care co-op if you have not contacted us by January 10th. The child-care co-op is not an option for those people registrating on-site.
Preliminary Summit Program Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that the Preliminary Program for the 2007 National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women is now available. This program is subject to change and does not yet reflect all of the presenters, moderators and facilitators. This program also does not include special guests and special events that will be occurring throughout this groundbreaking event.
Register today for this groundbreaking event. Reserve your hotel room at the special, discounted rate - based on availablity- now through Dec. 15, 2006
Summit Room Share and Ride-Share Information
Are you looking for a Summit hotel roommate? Do you have or are you looking for a local Atlanta Summit homestay opportunity? Trying to find a local Atlanta rideshare to or from the Summit? Why not share and save resources while building community?
We are pleased to announce a tool to help you connect with others who may be looking to share summit space and travel. Please visit spaceshare.com/napw to learn how to post whatever you'd like to share at the Summit. Although there is no guarantee you'll find a share opportunity to suit you, using SpaceShare definitely increases your chances.
Don't have internet access? You can call Stephanie, our volunteer roomshare coordinator, at 718.304.7852. Stephanie will be available each week on Tuesdays from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, Eastern time to help those without internet access to post their information about their interests in sharing hotel lodging, homestays and carpooling using the SpaceShare system.
Summit Air Travel Information/Special Group Rate
Air travel: The closest airport you can fly into is the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. NAPW has arranged a special group rate on American Airlines travel. To redeem your discount at purchase, visit www.aa.com, select your itinerary and click on "Fare Details" to enter the NAPW authorization code: A7817AJ. Offer good on all but Q or O fares. Call 1-800-433-1790 for all American Airlines travel-related questions.
National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women
Dear Friends and Allies:
National Advocates for Pregnant Women and more than 50 co-sponsors invite you to attend the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, Thursday, January 18– Sunday, January 21, 2007 at the Hilton Airport Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.
While politics and media like to divide the world into neat bundles of opposites—pro-abortion vs. pro-life, pro-choice vs. anti-choice—the reality of women’s lives often do not fit these simplistic and divisive labels. We can disagree on many things, but we believe it is time to recognize common threats and celebrate common threads that will ensure the humanity, dignity and well-being of pregnant and birthing women and their families.
Register Today for this Groundbreaking Event:
Reserve your hotel room at the special, discounted rate - based on availability - now through December 15, 2006: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/atlaahh_nap/index.jhtml
Support this Groundbreaking Event
Looking for Ways to Raise Money To Attend the Summit?
Stephanie Roth from Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training generously said we could link to the article:
8 Ways to Raise $2,500 (or more) in 10 Days (or less, sometimes) . The formal Scholarship process closed in September, but we still hope you will find ways to attend and will let us know if we can be of help. Scholarships and Travel assistance have been made possible, in part, by the contributions of Summit Co-Sponsors, the Compton Foundation, the Tides Reproductive Justice Fund, the Moriah Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Summit Funding Opportunities
JOIN ANGELA’S LIST* AND SUPPORT THE NATIONAL ADVOCATES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN’S
NATIONAL SUMMIT TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND HUMANITY OF PREGNANT AND BIRTHING WOMEN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 – SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007, HILTON AIRPORT ATLANTA, ATLANTA ,GA
NAPW NATIONAL SUMMIT FLYER AVAILABLE
NAPW NATIONAL SUMMIT FLYER AVAILABLE
A beautiful, downloadable flyer announcing the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, Thursday, January 18– Sunday, January 21, 2007 at the Hilton Airport Atlanta, Atlanta GA, providing registration information and listing just some of the many amazing co-sponsors is now available!! Please forward it to your e-mail lists, please download it and distribute to all of your networks!
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Register for 2007 Summit
Register for the January 2007, NATIONAL SUMMIT TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND HUMANITY OF PREGNANT AND BIRTHING WOMEN.
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Reserve Your Hotel Room at the special discounted rate now through December 15, 2006
General Summit Information
Great News! Full Information about registering for and getting to the NATIONAL SUMMIT TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND HUMANITY OF PREGNANT AND BIRTHING WOMEN is now available. Below please find general summit information.
National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant Women Co-Sponsors
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Our Bodies Ourselves
International Center for Traditional Childbearing
Citizens For Midwifery, Inc.
Mothers United For Midwifery
Realbirth Education Center
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Gynuity Health Projects
Vanderbilt University Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Justice Now
Feminist Women’s Health Center-Cedar River Clinics-WA State
ProKanDo
Abortion Access Project, Inc.
Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program and Population & Development Program, Hampshire College
Reproductive Health Technologies Project
Catholics for a Free Choice
Choice USA
Harm Reduction Coalition
Brooklyn Childcare Collective
Exhale
Ipas, USA
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Center For Reproductive Rights
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Real Cost of Prisons Project
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
National Organization for Women, Inc.
The Tatia Oden French Memorial Foundation
American Civil Liberties Union
The Rebecca Project for Human Rights
Causes in Common, a National organzing project of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Breaking the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs
HIV Law Project, Inc.
Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice & Healing
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Mother's First Initiative
Feminist Women's Health Center
National Women's Health Network
Salud Promujer, School of Medicine University of Puerto Rico
The MergerWatch Project
Conextions Inc.
Harm Reduction Project
National Network of Abortion Funds
Law Students for Choice
NARAL Pro-Choice New York
The Institute for Reproductive Health Access
NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia
Democracy in Action
Reproductive Health Access Project
American College of Nurse-Midwives
Committee on Women Population and the Environment
Generation Five
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)
National Lawyers Guild
ReproNetwork.org
Idaho Women's Network
Midwives Alliance of North America
Planned Parenthood of Georgia
Drug Policy Alliance
Backline
Third Wave Foundation
Council on Anthropology & Reproduction
Individual Co-Sponsors:
Steve Cochran
Barbara Katz Rothman & Wendy Simonds
Robbie Davis Floyd
Lisa Bernstein
Ilene & Henry Ordower
SAVE THE DATE National Summit on Pregnant Women and State Control:
While politics and media like to divide the world into neat bundles of opposites -- pro abortion vs. pro-life, pro-choice vs. anti-choice -- the reality of women’s lives often do not fit these simplistic and divisive labels. We can disagree on many things, but we believe it is time to recognize common threats and CELEBRATE common threads that will ensure the humanity, dignity, and well being of pregnant and birthing women and their families.
We invite people across disciplines, faiths, ideologies, and states to come together for the first time to share knowledge, experiences and strategies to support, honor, and celebrate pregnant women and families. Please save the date, January 18-21, and join us for a unique gathering that will share information, build strength, identify new strategies and effective action and celebrate common commitments and concerns. For more information go to NAPW’s website: www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org or contact: Matrice Sherman at: MS@advocatesforpregnantwomen.org.
For a complete Save the Date Flyer:
Interested in Attending or Volunteering for the National Summit on Pregnant Women and State Control: Ensuring the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women?
Interested in Presenting at the National Summit on Pregnant Women and State Control: Ensuring the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women 2007 Conference?
Co-Sponsorship/Endorsement Authorization Form
December News Round Up for Summit
Periodically we send our Summit Participants news stories that relate to some of the themes that will be addressed at the Summit. Below please find 5 stories that may be of interest
For Some women, birth has become the latest battlegound for reproductive rights
In a USA Today story, reporter Rita Rubin explores how "a growing number of hosptials, women are being forced to schedule a repeat cesarean section just because they already had one." The story describes an overall C-section rate in the US that continues to climb and local activism opposing restrictions on women seeking to have vaginal births: "'My uterus, my choice,' read one placard at a rally in late July at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash." To read the full story go to:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-08-23-csection-battle_x.htm
Abortion Issue Divides, Distracts Us From Common Threats and Threads
By: Lynn M. Paltrow, published in Perspectives, Volume 13, No.3, Winter 2005
I started my career defending a woman's right to choose abortion and now run National Advocates for Pregnant Women, an organization that works on behalf of pregnant women and families. No, I haven't had a political or religious conversion. What I have had is the opportunity to see how the abortion issue distracts us from shared political and family values.
CHOICE FOR WOMEN ISN'T ONLY ABOUT ABORTION
By Freeda Lynne Cathcart
Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)
June 6, 2004 Sunday Metro Edition
One in a million, part of a small contingent in a sea of masses, I was witness to the historic March for Women's Lives on April 25 in Washington D.C.
My husband, four sons and I marched with the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. We were a testament that the March for Women's Lives was about a much broader issue than abortion rights.
It was about women's ability to access good quality health care. It was about whether women can be trusted to make their own health care decisions.
We marched in memory of Angela Carder, a 27-year-old pregnant woman who in the name of fetal rights was forced to have a Caesarean section that resulted in her death and the death of her fetus. We marched in celebration of childbirth and the rights of women and families to decide if or when a Caesarean is necessary. We marched in honor of mothers who bear and raise children without compensation or any kind of meaningful state support to ensure the health and welfare of their families.