Presentations & Appearances 

  • University of Kentucky, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the J. Rosenberg College of Law, “Who Counts as a Person? Women, Wombs, and Project 2025” (Oct. 26, 2024)

  • American Psychoanalytic Association, Overturning Roe: Its Meanings and Consequences, panelist with Linda Greenhouse and Dr. Tracey Wilkinson (Feb 5, 2023)

  • American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Beyond Abortion and Into the Wilderness: The Post Roe Landscape, panelist with Drs Mary Faith Marshall and Lisa Harris. (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Dr. Robert Newman Annual Lecture in Addiction: Pregnancy and Addiction, Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, Addiction and Pregnancy: Birth of a New Era (Dec 15, 2021)

  • Cathy Shine Lecture, Boston University School of Public Health’s  Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, “The ‘Other’ Problem in the Quest for Pregnant Women’s Personhood” (March 5, 2019)

  • Lynn Paltrow on Fetal Personhood Laws & the Criminalization of Pregnancy, Democracy NOW! (July 8, 2019).

  • Edward N. Brandt, Jr. Memorial Lecture in Women’s Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Policy & the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health (November 30, 2015)

  • Keynote Address, 4th Annual Take Root: Red State Perspective on Reproductive Justice, Norman OK (Feb. 2014).

  • Lawrence Lader Lectureship on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights at Harvard Medical School (April 3 2014). 

  • Fresh Air: NPR Interview, Personhood in The Womb: A Constitutional Question (Nov. 2013).

  • Moyers and Company, PBS, Jessica González-Rojas and Lynn Paltrow on Abortion Rights Activism (Jan. 25, 2013). 

  • GritTV with Loretta Ross, Executive Director of SisterSong, & Lynn Paltrow discussing the campaign claiming that the most dangerous place for African-Americans is in their mother’s wombs. (Dec 9, 2010).

  • American Constitution Society, Boston Chapter, The Alito Nomination and the Future of Reproductive Rights Suffolk University Law School, Panel member, Boston, Mass. 

  • Harvard School of Public Health, Hidden Agenda, National Scandal: Criminalizing Pregnancy and Addiction, Cambridge, Mass.

  • Massachusetts School of Law, MSL Presents: A Question of Law, “The Rights of Pregnant Women,” Featured Guest, episode won a Silver Davey Award, an international academy of visual arts that honors the creative excellence of smaller television companies, Andover, Mass.

  • Motherhood Lost Conversations, Combating the Criminalization of Stillbirth and Miscarriage: A Conversation with Lynn Paltrow, Esq., Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, an award-winning, educational television series co-produced by Linda Layne and Heather Bailey at George Mason University Television, Fairfax, VA, hosted by Linda Layne.  (April 11 2010)

  • North American Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology, Thirty First Annual Meeting, Lihue, HI, Paul C. Weinberg memorial Lecture, The Many Prices of Reproductive Capacity for Women.

  • Practicing Law Institute, “Child Abuse, Neglect & The Foster Care System, The Attorney’s Role & Responsibilities, New York, New York, Panel Presenter on Drugs and the Child Welfare System.

  • The Yale Women’s Center’s Speakers Series: A Taste of Inequality, “Reproductive Freedom and the War on Drugs,” New Haven, Connecticut.

  • Keynote Presenter, Prejudice and Punishment: Judging Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs at the 13th Annual Conference Addiction: Focus on Women, Hendersonville North Carolina, Sponsored by the Mountain Area Health Education Center, Hendersonville, North Carolina.