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SUMMARY:Pregnancy Criminalization: Leveraging Medical Expertise for Effective Criminal Defense
DESCRIPTION:The legal landscape surrounding pregnancy criminalization is worsening. Representing individuals whose pregnancy outcomes or healthcare decisions become the subject of a criminal or civil investigation requires attorneys to navigate complex medical and forensic evidence. In collaboration with Pregnancy Justice\, the leading legal advocacy organization defending the civil and human rights of pregnant people\, and Dr. Mishka Terplan\, Medical Director of Friends Research Institute and co-founder of Doing Right by Birth\, this webinar will provide guidance on how to challenge the misleading science on which these prosecutions are often based and share example case studies. \nMishka Terplan\, MD MPH FACOG DFASAM\nMishka Terplan is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in addiction medicine. His primary clinical\, research\, public health\, and advocacy interests lie along the intersections of reproductive and behavioral health. He is Medical Director at Friends Research Institute and adjunct faculty at the University of California\, San Francisco where he is a Substance Use Warmline clinician. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Doing Right By Birth\, a non-profit that seeks to flip the script from drug exposure to early childhood development. Dr. Terplan has spoken at local high schools and before the United States Congress and is internationally recognized as an expert in the care of pregnant and parenting people who use drugs.\n\nEmma Roth\, JD\nEmma Roth (she/her) is a senior staff attorney at Pregnancy Justice\, a national legal nonprofit that advances and defends the rights of pregnant people. She provides criminal defense to people facing charges related to their pregnancies and also litigates civil rights cases related to reproductive rights and justice. She previously worked at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project\, where she brough impact litigation to advance the rights of women and girls in courts across the country. Emma served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Emma received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her A.B. from Brown University. As a proud mother of two young children\, Emma brings both her personal and professional experiences to her representation of pregnant and parenting people.\n\nFikayo Walter-Johnson\nFikayo Walter-Johnson (she/her) is a social science researcher committed to transformative social movements. Prior to joining Pregnancy Justice\, she supported research on the long-term social and mental impacts of juvenile incarceration and worked as a paralegal with the ACLU’s Speech\, Privacy & Technology Project\, where she assisted attorneys on pressing First and Fourth Amendment litigation. As the Senior Research Associate at Pregnancy Justice\, she combines her knowledge of privacy\, free speech\, public health and social science research to advance pregnant people’s social and legal protections. Fikayo received her bachelor’s from the University of Chicago with a dual degree in Sociology & Public Policy and a specialization in Gender & Sexuality Studies.
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