Dania Palanker, Senior Counsel
Dania is a Senior Counsel for Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. Her work focuses primarily on implementing health reform and expanding access to quality, affordable...
View ArticleLeila Abolfazli, Senior Counsel
Leila Abolfazli is Senior Counsel in the Health and Reproductive Rights Program at NWLC. She works on a range of issues involving the protection and expansion of reproductive rights at the federal...
View ArticleMara Gandal-Powers, Counsel
Mara Gandal-Powers is Counsel for Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. She previously was a legal fellow and an intern at the Center. During law school, Ms. Gandal-Powers...
View ArticleMarcia D. Greenberger, Co-President
Described as “guiding the battles of the women’s rights movement” by the New York Times, Marcia Greenberger is the founder and Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center. The creation of the...
View ArticleKelli Garcia, Senior Counsel
Kelli Garcia, Senior Counsel, first joined the Center in 2009 as a law fellow and was promoted to Counsel, focusing on health care reform implementation and preventing discrimination in health care....
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When Being Pregnant Becomes a Crime
Imagine that you have a close friend who desperately needs help, because her life has gone downhill and she has a substance use problem. She wants to stop using drugs, but going through withdrawal on...
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Tennessee Lawmakers Should Stop Prosecutions of Pregnant Women
Tennessee lawmakers have the chance to do the right thing and let a terrible law expire. The law, which is set to sunset in July, criminalizes drug use during pregnancy. Yet, despite the fact that the...
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Zika Virus, Public Health, and Women’s Reproductive Options
One of the strengths of public health epidemiology is that we don’t have to wait until the experts know exactly how a virus infects people to know how to prevent infection or disease. With very basic...
View ArticleLetter to Congress: Co-Sponsor and Support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Over 150 organizations have joined NWLC in defending the rights of pregnant workers and asking members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act! The post Letter to...
View ArticlePregnancy Accommodations in the States
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws to explicitly grant pregnant employees the right to reasonable accommodations at work. Eleven of these laws have been passed since 2013,...
View ArticleZika Virus, Reproductive Healthcare, and Workplace Policies
Zika virus disease is a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted illness that has been spreading in the Western hemisphere since 2015. It usually causes mild or no symptoms, but has been linked to...
View ArticleNWLC Releases Interactive, State-by-State Zika Map Identifying Where Policies...
(Washington D.C.) Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released an interactive map that examines which states at risk of the Zika virus provide access to key reproductive health and workplace...
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Reproductive Rights and Anti-Poverty Advocates Succeed in Overturning Racist,...
This June, California Governor Jerry Brown repealed the sexist, racist welfare “family cap” rule, also known as the Maximum Family Grant Policy in California. The policy prevented welfare recipients...
View ArticleFAQ: Pregnant and Parenting College & Graduate Students Rights
How does Title IX Apply to Pregnant or Parenting College & Graduate Students? Title IX bans sex discrimination in schools that get federal funds. Sex includes pregnancy and all related conditions...
View ArticlePregnant and Parenting Students’ Rights
Title IX is a law that bans sex discrimination in schools that get federal funds. Title IX makes it illegal to exclude students who may be, are, or have been pregnant from an educational program. Title...
View ArticleFAQ: Breastfeeding Students
I’m coming back to school after giving birth to a child. Does my school have to let me breastfeed or pump breast milk on campus? Yes. Title IX says schools that get federal funding cannot discriminate...
View ArticlePregnant and Parenting Students’ Rights Toolkit
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The Pregnant Student’s Back to School Guide Q&A
Preparing for a child and for classes to start up in the fall? Don’t worry- we’ve got you covered. Here are some helpful tips from our most recent pregnant and parenting student tool-kit to help make...
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Pregnancy and Professors: How Title IX Ensures the Rights of Pregnant and...
Imagine being 36 weeks pregnant and trying to complete the last class that stands between you and your hard-earned college degree. You are a bit nervous about giving birth in the middle of spring...
View ArticleStates act on pregnancy discrimination
A principal catalyst is the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, which ruled in favor of a pregnant UPS worker whose doctor-sanctioned request to carry lighter loads was...
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