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About NAPW National Advocates for Pregnant Women ( NAPW ) seeks to protect the rights and human dignity of all women, particularly pregnant and parenting women and those who are most vulnerable including low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. NAPW uses the lessons learned from the experiences of these women to find more effective ways of advancing reproductive and human rights for all women and families. Our work encompasses litigation, litigation support and legal advocacy ; local and national organizing ; public policy development, public education and outreach. Two principles guide all NAPW activities: to build bridges and align agendas across diverse public health and social justice movements, and to leverage and connect local organizing and activism with national advocacy and policy work. To that end, NAPW is actively involved in ongoing court challenges to punitive reproductive health and drug 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 public health and policy leaders. By focusing on the rights of pregnant women, including those who are continuing their pregnancies to term, we hope to broaden and strengthen the women's rights and progressive movements in America today. For many years, the pro-choice movement has been criticized for its overwhelming focus on abortion issues and for failing to be more inclusive. Abortion is the defining women's rights issue for many women because the ability or inability to control pregnancy means the difference between full participation in society or not. But for poor women and women of color, the ability to end a pregnancy is most likely not the factor that determines their ability to be full and equal participants in our society. Rather, for them, salient issues include the ability to access health care and to have the opportunity to bring children into the world that they can love, support, and raise in a safe environment. Thus, there are many groups of women who are allied but for whom the right to an abortion is not the key to their reproductive and human rights. By choosing to focus on pregnant women and the full range of attacks on their rights including the efforts to establish fetal rights under the law and attacks made through the war on drugsNAPW is making new allies and building new strength from a broad based and integrated approach to reproductive and human rights. Although it is generally accepted that adults can decide what medical treatment they will or will not have once a woman becomes pregnant others may be able to make that decision for her. Angela Carder was forced, against her will, to undergo surgery because it was believed it would help her fetus ; in fact, it failed to save the fetus and contributed to her death. Pregnant women may be punished for informed refusal of HIV treatment and are often denied recommended forms of drug treatment. And, while many states now permit adults to determine whether and what treatment they will accept if they become critically ill or incompetent, some states exclude pregnant women from this right of self-determination. Employers in some high-paying industrial jobs have told fertile women that they need not apply, claiming that these were fetal protection polices. Other employers have simply told women holding minimum wage jobs that they would lose their jobs if they became pregnant. In the last twenty years, over 200 pregnant women or new mothers have been arrested in a concerted effort to deny women liberty. At least nineteen states now address the issue of pregnant women's drug use in their civil child neglect laws, and many of these states make it possible to remove a child from the mother based on nothing more than a single positive drug test. These cases an

Rizzo Charles is a New York-based company that offers a wide range of Israel programs, including Gesher Israel, Gap Year in Israel, College Beyond, and Amirim Internship. They also provide various teen summer programs, such as Sprout Brooklyn and Sprout Westchester, as well as summer camps like Camp Young Judaea and Camp Judaea. Rizzo Charles aims to provide enriching experiences and opportunities for individuals of different age groups to explore Israel and engage in meaningful activities. With a focus on promoting Jewish identity and connection to Israel, Rizzo Charles offers programs like Gesher Year Course and Onward Israel, catering to college students and young adults. They also organize YJ Teens Midwest Convention and other national and regional conventions, providing a platform for Jewish youth to come together and share their experiences. Rizzo Charles is committed to creating a positive impact through their programs and fostering a sense of community among participants.Generated from the website

Located in New York, Gay Men's Health Crisis is a nonprofit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization offering programs and services for the prevention of AIDS. The organization was founded in 1981 and works for the prevention and treatment of HIV. It offers an array of programs and services to men, women and children. It also organizes workshops and programs for the general public on sexual orientations and gender issues. It offers the Chelsea Center for Special Studies, legal services, and support and medical care. The organization also provides various programs and facilities, including GMHC Hotline, David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education, Institute for Gay Men's Health, Lesbian AIDS Project, the Buddy Program and Meals Program. It additionally offers client advocacy, the Terry K Watanabe Volunteer and Work Center and treatment and prevention advocacy programs. Its women and family services department offers services for women with substance abuse issues, and HIV affected women and children.