Basic Organization Information
National Advocates for Pregnant Women
- Also Known As:
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NAPW
- Physical Address:
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New York, NY
10018
- EIN:
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52-2282183
- Web URL:
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www.advocatesforpreg...
- NTEE Category:
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R Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy
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R61 Reproductive Rights
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R Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy
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R24 Women's Rights
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None
- Year Founded:
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2001
- Ruling Year:
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2001
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Mission Statement
NAPW works to achieve a world in which women enjoy full personhood and where neither pregnancy nor drug use serve as an excuse to dehumanize and punish select groups of people. NAPW's mission is to secure the human and civil rights, health, and welfare of pregnant and parenting women while protecting children from punitive and misguided state policies. We advocate on behalf of all women, especially those who are most marginalized: women of color, low-income women, and women who use drugs.
Expert Reviews
Experts seemed to like the niche which this organization served: addressing the reproductive needs of pregnant women. They considered this an important but underserved population within the broader reproductive rights area.
Impact Statement
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Revenue and Expenses
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Chief Executive
Ms. Lynn M Paltrow, J.D.
Chief Executive Profile:
Ms. Paltrow, JD, is a leading national litigator and strategist best known for her cases involving the intersection of the war on reproductive freedom and the war on drugs. In the past she has served as a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, as Director of Special Litigation at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and as the Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of New York City.
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Program:
Programs
- Budget:
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- Category:
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- Population Served:
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General Public/Unspecified
Program Description:
NAPW is actively involved in ongoing court challenges to punitive drug and reproductive health policies and provides litigation support in cases across the country. NAPW engages in local and national organizing and public education efforts among the diverse communities that are stakeholders in these issues, including the women and families directly affected by punitive policies, as well as the public health and policy leaders who can ensure that the problems of pregnancy and drug use are dealt with through the public health system rather than the criminal justice system. NAPW uses these opportunities to challenge the myths regarding drug-using women, and provides a medical, legal, and political analysis of why punitive approaches fail everyone.
Program Long-Term Success:
Litigation and support for litigation that successfully challenges efforts to establish fetal rights under the law, to expand the war on drugs, to undermine families, and to deprive public hospital patients of their rights to medical privacy and confidentiality.
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