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#StopKavanaugh and #SaveRoe: Interview and Readings
by Sarah Nichols on Sep 6, 2018
ICYMI: In response to the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that started on Tuesday, Lynn Paltrow, the Executive Director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), joined us for a discussion on our Facebook live page on how the Supreme Court nomination will affect Roe v. Wade. Lynn currently placed an op-ed in the New York Times on Life After Roe.
Here’s the full video of our discussion:
We are LIVE with Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Comment with a 👋 emoji if you're watching and with any questions you may have! #StopKavanaugh #SaveRoe
Posted by Women's Rights and Empowerment Network- WREN on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
For those of you who watched the interview today – someone asked for some suggested reading. Here are some books, commentaries, and videos that Lynn recommends that touch on some (but not all) of the interconnected issues implicated in the fight to preserve Roe v. Wade:
- Video: NAPW: The Case of Alicia Beltran
- Webinar: Overturning Roe: More than Abortion is at Stake, with Professor Dorothy E. Roberts and Lynn M. Paltrow
- Commentary: Pregnant, and No Civil Rights, Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin
- Book: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Commentary: Roe v. Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Lynn M. Paltrow
- Book: Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts
- Book: Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America, Jeanne Flavin
- Book: High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society, Carl Hart
- Book: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Are there any reading/listening/watching materials that we didn’t cover, that you’d like to share? Tag us on Facebook or Twitter and let us know.