Public Education

NAPW is committed to undoing decades of misinformation and political posturing about pregnancy and drug use. From traditional tools such as press releases, to posting information on our web site, to delivering creative Power Point presentations, we are getting our message out. NAPW takes every opportunity to expose the propaganda behind destructive and dehumanizing stereotypes about pregnant women and drug users. and to challenge anti-abortion and drug war policies as divisive and diversionary tactics designed to distract Americans from common values and concerns.

Through speaking engagements and other public education efforts NAPW keeps its commitment to working at both the local and national levels, and to recognizing, learning from, and building on the ways that reproductive health, drug policy, and other social justice issues intersect.

NAPW is quoted in, referred to, and appears in a diverse range of print, television, radio and on-line sources including the New York Times, Newsweek, Women'senews, The Village Voice, ColorLines Magazine, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, CBS Early Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, national and local NPR stations, and a variety of talk news radio stations across the country. We also reach international audiences with appearances in such media as the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Guardian (London), Bristol United Press, CBC and BBC Radio.

NAPW also authors and co-authors reports and a wide range of articles in everything from prestigious medical journals to traditional print source to on-line journals. Increasingly NAPW also uses its resources to support local activists, helping them to write and publish commentary in state-based and local media.

Through this public education work, NAPW has been challenging prejudice against pregnant women, drug users and low income and families of color and exposing how abortion, fetal rights and drug war issues distract from significant public health and social justice problems.