A post to do two things
Sep 28, 2006 Feminism/Politics
First, to highlight this great conference being sponsored by National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Does anyone know anything about this organization? Here’s their mission statement:
National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) works to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women, and those who are most vulnerable - low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. NAPW seeks to ensure that women do not lose their constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy, that addiction and other health and welfare problems they face during pregnancy are addressed as health issues, not as crimes; that families are not needlessly separated, based on medical misinformation; and that pregnant and parenting women have access to a full range of reproductive health services, as well as non-punitive drug treatment services. By focusing on the rights of pregnant women, NAPW broadens and strengthens the reproductive justice, drug policy reform, and other interconnected social justice movements in America today.
Thanks be to Ibex67 for the heads up!
Second reason, I wanted to test out my new image plugin. Click the image to see the magic!
September 28th, 2006 at 2:36 am
Wow, that image thing is VERY COOL. What is it? How did you do that? And very good about the NAPW. I’d never heard of them.
September 28th, 2006 at 3:50 am
wow. you have small hands.
(kidding!)
September 28th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Thanks for the link. When I was working with DHS cases, over 90% of cases involved drug use. Nonpunitive drug treatment should be a cornerstone of reform in multiple arenas and it is great to see an organization include that as part of its mission statement.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:03 am
Wow! What’s the image plugin called?
September 28th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
The plugin is called lightbox.
http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox
It’s an easy install and then you just smack a dab of code in your image posts to make it work.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
You just made my geeky little day! Thank you!
September 29th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Thank you for the link to NAPW - I know nothing about them, but absolutely will check them out.