Every year for the holiday season in place of money we might spend on gifts to one another, my family gives a contribution to a worthy organization. This year we decided we wanted to support an organization that is doing good for pregnant women, mothers and babies. For several months now, I have been studying several organizations to see which might actually be the doing the most good. We now have decided the National Advocates for Pregnant Women will get our support this year. You can read about NAPW at their website. Here is what Katha Pollitt, The Nation, said about NAPW:
This spirited group, headed by the brilliant civil liberties lawyer Lynn Paltrow, supports the rights of poor, often minority, sometimes drug-using women to respectful healthcare and social services, and fights punitive “fetal rights” prosecutions and legislation. The women NAPW supports are at the center of a perfect storm made of antichoice politics, racism and the “war on drugs”: They need support and treatment, not to be arrested in their beds in the maternity ward, as happened in South Carolina, and clapped into prison. Pregnant women have constitutional rights too. And remember, as with all civil liberties issues, today it’s them; tomorrow it could be you. Send checks to 153 Waverly Pl., 6th floor, New York, NY 10011
I am very pleased with our choice.
