The recognition that a woman’s full equality is dependent upon her ability to afford and access reproductive healthcare—from contraception and abortion to prenatal care and obstetric services to breastfeeding support and supplies—underpins our approach to reproductive rights. Ensuring that women who desire to become pregnant are able to have healthy pregnancies, birth experiences, and infants is an essential part of that work. To find out more about our particular work on maternal health in states and localities, see our interactive partner map.
We are currently working with Prisoners’ Legal Services and the Prison Birth Project and the ACLU of Southern California to implement laws in Massachusetts and California that prohibit the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women.
We previously partnered with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children in San Francisco to build toward California’s statewide anti-shackling ban, and with Aid to Inmate Mothers, which provides health care and services to incarcerated women in Alabama.