Pregnant Women Need Health Care, Not Jail Time
By Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Staff Attorney, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly...
View ArticleJust say NO to the War on Drugs
Elon James White teamed up with the ACLU to urge Americans to “just say NO” to the War on Drugs. Why? Because it’s brought 40 years of wasteful, damaging, unjust policies. And also because David Simon...
View ArticleVideos from the non-violent war against the violent drug wars
Prostitutes and secret service and Latin America, oh my. This year’s Summit of the Americas was reduced to a scandal about secret service agents too dumb or too cheap to pay the money they owed the sex...
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“The war on drugs has become a war on women”
Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu. Pic via CNN. Violence against women in Latin America is on the rise–and it’s partly thanks to the US’s ineffective drug policies. A delegation of women, led by...
View ArticleWatch this new documentary on the racist, ineffective war on drugs
Despite recent legalization successes in the Northwest, the U.S. war on drugs is still going strong–and new documentary Breaking the Taboo makes the urgent case for ending the racist, ineffective...
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New report shows how the principle of “personhood” is already criminalizing...
Regina McKnight was charged with homicide by child abuse after the state said her cocaine use caused her to have a stillbirth. It was later determined that the stillbirth was due to an infection, and...
View ArticleThe war on drugs, fetal personhood, and the criminalization of pregnant women
The New York Times has a short documentary up exploring the construction of the “crack baby” epidemic – an epidemic that was largely built on racist media hype and flimsy science. This week’s Retro...
View ArticleDaily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Shameless plug: my documentary “Commie Camp” (and I) will be in the Bay Area at The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where my movie is having its West Coast premiere at the Grand Lake Theater in...
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Attorney General Eric Holder announces new treatment for non-violent drug...
Via Salon.com Yesterday, in addition to the court ruling on stop-and-frisk, there was other news with regards to civil rights. Speaking at a national gathering of the American Bar Association,...
View ArticleIndiana Attorney General suggests requiring drug-testing for pregnant women
Citing the cost of treating infants exposed to addictive drugs, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is calling on the state legislature to require the drug-testing of pregnant women: It is called...
View ArticleWin: Indiana Attorney General backtracks on mandatory drug testing of...
Remember last week when Indiana’s Attorney General was suggesting that drug-testing pregnant folks in Indiana was a great idea? Well it seems someone in the Indiana AG’s office has come to their...
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Is “Breaking Bad” a critique of U.S. health care (or lack thereof)?
Last night, I visited my parents for dinner and then watched the…season… no… series… [come on Katie! You can do it!]… finale [sniffles] of Breaking Bad. Though I told my mom not to watch the finale and...
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“I didn’t know unborn children had lawyers.” Federal lawsuit challenges fetal...
Photo Credit: NY Times This month, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) filed the first federal lawsuit challenging fetal protection laws that criminalize pregnant folks who, because of...
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Michigan laws will block unemployment benefits for failed drug test
Via LA Times Over at theGrio.com, I reported today that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has just signed into law a new package of laws that allow business to report failed drug tests that job seekers...
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How you can fight and tweet against rape in the military House Speaker John Boehner thinks LGBT Employment Protections Are ‘Unnecessary’. And they say Republicans are out of touch, bigoted and...
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Republican Congressman busted for cocaine possession voted to drug-test food...
You’ve probably heard about freshman Congressman Trey Radel, a Republican from Florida who was recently caught buying cocaine from an undercover cop in DC. But did you know he just voted to drug-test...
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Federal judge strikes down Florida’s welfare drug testing law
U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven Great news: On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven struck down the Florida law mandating the compulsory drug testing of recipients of cash assistance! The law was...
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What Obama’s silence on Ayotzinapa says about the War on Drugs
Last week Obama announced an executive order that offers temporary legal status for over 4 million undocumented people living in the United States. This has been a long time coming, and though the...
View ArticleConservative commentator blames single moms and “women’s lib” for police...
As I mentioned yesterday, it was probably only a matter of time before someone found a way to blame feminism for the police violence that’s taken center stage in the national conversation in the last...
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Pregnant women aren’t being arrested to protect their fetuses
Lately, articles have been circulating about the control and punishment of pregnant people for crimes like fetal homicide or assault on a fetus, an issue that we’ve been talking about here for years....
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