
Commentaries
and Op-Eds
Project 2025 Would Establish an Unborn Uber Class, (Carrie N. Baker and Lynn M. Paltrow) Ms. (Oct. 21, 2024).
Project 2025, ‘Tampon Tim,’ and the GOP’s Commitment to Cervical Mucus, (Lynn M. Paltrow and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf) (Oct. 12, 2024).
Criminalization of Pregnant Women Skyrockets, Based on the Legal Fiction of ‘Fetal Personhood’, (Carrie N. Baker and Lynn M. Paltrow) Ms. (Oct. 1, 2024).
Lessons from the DNC: How Abortion Protects Us From the Choices We Can’t Make, Ms. (Aug. 26, 2024).
Criminalizing Drugs—Including Misoprostol and Mifepristone—Is a Bad Idea, Ms. (June 9, 2024).
The Florida Supreme Court Didn’t Just Uphold a Six-Week Ban—It Denied Women Their Constitutional Privacy, Ms. (April 12, 2024).
After Alabama, Making IVF available won’t stop criminalization, in Jessica Valenti, Abortion Every Day (Mar. 1, 2024)
My Thanks to Dobbs, Ms. (Jan. 22, 2024).
Why I Refuse to Feel Hopeless About the Texas Abortion Case, Ms. (Sept. 8, 2021).
Forward and contributing author for Abortion in America: How Legislative Overreach is Turning Reproductive Rights into Criminal Wrongs, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2021).
Constitutional Rights for the “Unborn” Would Force Women to Forfeit Theirs, Ms. (April 15, 2021).
June v. Gee: When the Issue Involves Pregnancy and Abortion Inconsistency Should Come as No Surprise, JURIST (Feb. 2020).
Using Anti-Choice Law to Criminalize Pregnancy Is Nothing New, Rewire News (May 14, 2019).
Reproductive Health Act won't endanger women, Albany Times Union (Feb. 24, 2019).
Do No Harm” Like You Mean It: Hospital Workers’ Role in the Policing of Pregnant Women, (with lead author Jeanne Flavin) The Scholar and Feminist Online (2019)
Life After Roe, New York Times (Sept. 1, 2018).
We Lose When We Divide Arrests of Pregnant Women into Good and Bad Ones, Rewire News (Jan. 23, 2017).
The Societal Womb (with lead author Jeanne Flavin) Gender and Society (May 19, 2017).
Purvi Patel, Abortion, and the Feticide Playbook, Huffington Post (May 27, 2016).
How Indiana Is Making It Possible to Jail Women for Having Abortions, Political Research Associates, Public Eye Magazine (March 29, 2015).
When Pregnancy Leads to a Prison Term, Open Society Foundation, Voices (June 24, 2015).
Pregnant, and No Civil Rights, (first author with Jeanne Flavin) New York Times (Nov. 7, 2014).
It’s Time to Repeal State Advance Directive Laws That Discriminate Against Women, (with lead author Katherine Taylor) Rewire News (Apr 10, 2014).
Marlise Munoz Case Shines Light on Dehumanizing ‘Pregnancy Exclusion’ Laws, (with lead author Katherine Taylor) Rewire News (Jan 9, 2014).
Hobby Lobby Wants to Deny Insurance Coverage of Birth Control. It Should Stop Selling Knitting Needles Too, Rewire News (Mar 20, 2014).
Toward a “Pro Lives” Perspective that Values the Lives of Pregnant Women and the Well-Being of Our Nation (with lead author Jeanne Flavin) Mobilizing Ideas (March 18, 2013).
Is Locking Up Pregnant Women the New Cure for State Financial Woes and Mental Health Problems?, Rewire News Group and Huffington Post (Mar 30, 2011).
PersonhoodUSA: Promoting a Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda, Huffington Post (Oct. 25, 2010).
Roe v. Wade, "New" Science, & the Old Geography of Pregnancy, Huffington Post (Jan. 22, 2010).
Pregnant Women and Mothers Deserve Better, Huffington Post (July 29, 2009).
Obama, the Bishops and the "Right to Life," Huffington Post (May 15, 2009).
Concerned About Coerced Abortions? Try Saying No to Cesarean Surgery, Huffington Post Huffington Post (April 24, 2009).
How PersonhoodUSA Will Hurt All Pregnant Women, Huffington Post (March 24, 2009).
A Modest Proposal or Why I Support the Full Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, The Women's Media Center (Aug. 2, 2006).
The Abortion Diversion, The Boston Globe (Feb. 20, 2005).
The Unborn/Abortion Smokescreen, Z Magazine 14 (October 2003).
Take Politics Out of Pregnancy, Chicago Sun-Times (July 12, 2001).
Our Common Struggle, Harm Reduction Communication (Spring 1999, No. 8).
A Matter of Conscience, The National Law Journal (November 7, 1988).
Even pregnant women have rights, USA Today (Dec. 3, 1987).
Religious Freedom and Family Life: Reflections on the Right to Choose, VI Conscience 1 (Nov./Dec. 1985).