Marshae Jones’ arrest won’t protect any life, won’t create healthy communities, won’t advance maternal or child health and won’t achieve any justice. It will, however, affirm the message that state police power may be used to control and lock up pregnant women.
Author: National Advocates for Pregnant Women
National Advocates for Pregnant Women 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. By focusing on the rights of pregnant women who want to go to term, as well as women who seek abortions, NAPW is broadening and strengthening the reproductive movement.