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Pregnancy Justice
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If you’re facing charges related to your pregnancy, contact us at [email protected]. pregnancyjusticeus.org
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Since 2022, 100 independent clinics have closed or stopped providing abortions. This has a devastating impact on communities that rely on them. But we can help keep clinics open. Learn more about clinic closures: communitiesneedclinics.org @abortioncare.bsky.social #IndiesProvide
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Don’t miss your chance to apply for our Senior Staff Attorney position! The application closes this Wednesday, November 12th!

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November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Join our fight to advance and defend the rights of pregnant people as a summer intern! pregnancyjustice.bamboohr.com/careers/48
Legal Intern - Summer 2026. NYC in-office/hybrid | $24 per hour Job description: -Support civil rights & criminal defense litigation through legal research and writing -Help draft and edit public-facing materials -Track and analyze developments in state and federal legislation -Engage with coalitions and partner orgs -Support in research and drafting for policy advocacy Open to current 1Ls and 2Ls
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Ahead of Thursday’s “People’s UPR” that will highlight human rights abuses across the U.S., we’re joining 100+ orgs to call out the diminishing state of bodily autonomy.

The Trump admin cannot be allowed to evade its human rights review.

Read our letter: www.globaljusticecenter.net/letter-repro...
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Just a few more days to buy tickets and support Pregnancy Justice! 🎫🎶 JusticeAid is curating a benefit concert with the Grammy and Oscar-winning Lisa Fischer and The Orrin Evans Trio. The night also includes a three-course meal and a cocktail reception. justiceaid.networkforgood.com/events/89859...
Photo of Lisa Fischer singing with a mic in hand. Text: A benefit concert for Pregnancy Justice. 10/20/25 at The Hamilton in Washington DC.
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Job opportunity✨💻 Help us create a Knowledge Hub through a grant-funded project with Doing Right by Birth!

If you are a detail-oriented & organized lover of workflow tools, apply now with a 1-2 paragraph statement of interest and resume. Apps close in 2 weeks. www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/careers/
Job posting - Project Manager Consultant. US-Remote | Contractor | $42/hr. -Coordinate day-to-day project administration -Manage logistics and communication for research project staff, including team meetings, agendas, minutes, and relevant travel -Manage project budget, including expenses, grant funding, and disbursement of funds Facilitate project planning and track project deadlines to ensure timely delivery; monitor grant deliverables and progress reports -Manage logistics for periodic webinars, events, and public-facing materials *Approximately 10 hours per week with flexible work hours
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Today is your LAST CHANCE to register for our Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium! We'll discuss research on fetal personhood, gender stereotypes, reproductive justice, wrongful convictions, junk science, and the post-Dobbs landscape.

Sign up by 5 pm ET: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium. Hosted by: NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, Reproductive Justice Clinic, and Review of Law and Social Change; and Pregnancy Justice. Date: Friday, October 10, 2025. 9:30 AM-1:30 PM ET. RSVP: https://linktr.ee/pregnancyjust Arrows pointing to 3 boxes with each panel title: A Legal Reimagining of Pregnancy, The Impulse to Punish: An American Response to Pregnancy, Where Junk Science Meets Gender Stereotypes. Pregnancy Justice logo and NYU Law logo
October 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We have NEW research on pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first two years after Dobbs, and there are surely more cases.

They show us that giving rights to fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses paves the way for people to be ARRESTED and PUNISHED for all pregnancy outcomes — beyond abortion.
In the two years after Dobbs, prosecutors initiated at least 412 cases charging people with crimes related to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth. Prosecutors criminalized 31 people who experienced a pregnancy loss in the 2 years after Dobbs. Pregnancy related prosecutions happened in 16 states. These were the top 3: Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Most cases involve allegations of substance use during pregnancy - 399/412 Most cases began in a medical setting - 264/412 Most cases involved the family policing system - 217/412
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Join us for our Policing Pregnancy webinar series to learn about the fight over who is a person in America and to hear our latest findings on pregnancy-related criminal charges after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Sign up at linktr.ee/pregnancyjust 🔔‼️
A flyer for part 1 of the Policing Pregnancy Webinar Series on September 25 at 3pm ET. Undoing Roe was just a step for the anti-abortion movement. The true goal is to make embryos and fetuses legal “people” under the 14th Amendment. Join the discussion examining history and the fight over who is a person in America. Panelists: Mary Ziegler, Author of “Personhood” Lourdes A. Rivera, Pregnancy Justice Imani Gandy, Rewire News Group Karen Thompson, Pregnancy Justice RSVP at https://linktr.ee/pregnancyjust. A flyer for part 2 of the Policing Pregnancy Webinar Series on September 30 at 3pm ET. Hear from the Pregnancy Justice research team, along with state-based advocates and practitioners, as we launch our latest findings on pregnancy-related criminal charges in the first two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Panelists: Dr. Orisha Bowers, Yellowhammer Fikayo Walter, Pregnancy Justice Caitlin Beasley, Metriarch Michele Ko, Pregnancy Justice Courtney King, PhD Assistant Professor RSVP at https://linktr.ee/pregnancyjust.
September 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Get up — the ABA passed a resolution to help protect pregnant people❗We hope it is just the first of many steps toward ensuring that pregnant people can live with safety and dignity.

No one should be punished because of their actions during pregnancy, or for any pregnancy outcome.
The American Bar Association (ABA) passed a resolution against laws that punish people for their actions during pregnancy. Resolution 518 states how the criminalization of pregnancy: - threatens fundamental rights - stops individuals from seeking medical care, and - worsens maternal and infant health outcomes. Text from Resolution 518: RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association opposes the application or adoption of laws imposing civil or criminal liability for any actions taken by an individual based on the potential, actual, or perceived impact on their pregnancy, its outcomes, or their health; and FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urge the adoption and faithful execution of laws that prohibit civil or criminal liability for any actions taken by an individual based on the potential, actual, or perceived impact on their pregnancy, its outcomes, or their health. The ABA is sending a clear message: oppose pregnancy criminalization. We commend the ABA for this step toward legal and policy change to protect pregnant people.
August 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The choice to breastfeed is for parents, not law enforcement or family policing agencies.

#nationalbreastfeedingmonth
Parents deserve the right to choose whether or not to breastfeed and be supported by their healthcare providers, employers, and community. No one should be separated from or prevented from nursing their newborn because of substance use. National Breastfeeding Month
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Two protesters. One is standing, holding a sign that says "Pregnancy Justice." One is in a wheelchair, holding a megaphone. Text reads "Reproductive Justice is Disability Justice." Quote from Sins Invalid. Illustration in the corner of 4 people looking to the left. One is holding a baby. One is pregnant.
August 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Disability Justice is Reproductive Justice. Our fight for bodily autonomy is one & the same. Reproductive Justice means we ALL have the power & resources to make informed decisions about our own bodies. That includes people with disabilities. That includes all of us.

#DisabilityPrideMonth
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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What a powerful night of learning + community!
Thanks to @rooftopfilms.bsky.social for hosting a conversation with Baby Doe filmmaker Jessica Earnshaw, journalist @susanrinkunas.com, and our own Pregnancy Justice attorney Dara Gell on the alarming rise of DNA tech to prosecute pregnancy loss.
July 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🚨 Pregnancy Police Alert! Joshua Divine holds views that would send even more pregnant people to jail, ban abortion, threaten IVF, birth control, and MORE. They directly attack the safety, rights, and freedom of pregnant people.

Call your senators and tell them to REJECT Divine’s nomination.
Pregnancy Police Alert! On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on Joshua Divine's nomination to a lifetime judicial appointment. He holds many dangerous and extreme views. Among them, he believes that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are people entitled to legal and constitutional rights. Photo of Joshua Divine. Pregnancy Police Alert! Not only does granting legal rights to fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses mean banning abortion in all circumstances, but it also expands pregnancy criminalization and threatens IVF and some forms of birth control. Call your senators and tell them to reject Divine's nomination. Photo of Joshua Divine.
July 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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¿Quiere aprender más sobre sus derechos durante el embarazo y el parto?

Consulte nuestra Guía de Derechos de Nacimiento: www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...
July 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Our updated "Birth Rights" guide has info for pregnant people and those who support them, including understanding racism in obstetric care, how to file complaints, and navigating post-Dobbs realities.

Explore the guide and share it far and wide: www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...
July 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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GOOD NEWS! Today, we announced a settlement in a lawsuit we brought on behalf of Ashley Caswell alongside co-counsel @splcenter.org and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

This settlement sends a clear message: A person’s carceral status doesn’t make them any less human or less deserving of civil rights.
Alabama Jail Birth Lawsuit Settled We filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ashley Caswell after an Alabama jail violated her constitutional rights. After Ms. Caswell’s water broke, she was left to give birth alone in a jail shower, suffering excruciating pain and a life-threatening placental abruption. Today, we have settled the lawsuit on her behalf, resolving these claims. “It wasn’t easy standing up for myself, but reaching this point today lets me know I made the right decision to sue. I hope they’ll take steps to make sure this doesn't happen to another woman again.” - Ashley Caswell
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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See you July 2 at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social & @oneillinstitute.bsky.social's "Supreme Court Term in Review." Pregnancy Justice's president, Lourdes Rivera, will speak on SCOTUS’s role in reproductive oppression & how the Trump administration is testing the rule of law.

RSVP: bit.ly/SCOTUS25
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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When we say our fights are interconnected, this is what we mean.
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Join us & Adriana Smith’s family THIS SUNDAY to honor what should have been her 31st birthday.

We'll release balloons, lift up prayer, & rally to ensure no more Black women are silenced in their most vulnerable moments.

Sunday, June 15th, 3pm
✅ RSVP: tinyurl.com/RallyForAdriana
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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@forwardlevel.bsky.social Thank you for an inspiring night of power-building and community. We loved meeting artists and advocates united in the fight for reproductive justice. Together, we're building a world free from reproductive violence where all people can live with dignity and autonomy.
June 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Don't let this headline fool you: There is no surge of baby-killing moms. In reality, there is a surge of prosecutors punishing pregnancy loss. This is just cruel and wrong.
June 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Join us and Patient Forward for a webinar on the role of the viability line in pregnancy-related prosecutions.

📅Tuesday, June 3 | 12 p.m. ET
✍️Register at bit.ly/ViabilityWebinar
📖Read the new report at www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...
A promo image for a Pregnancy Justice-Patient Forward webinar on June 3 at 12 p.m. ET: "The Role of the Viability Line in Pregnancy Criminalization." Register at bit.ly/viabilitywebinar, and read the new report at https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Viability-Line-Report.pdf
May 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM