Renewed War on Drugs, harsher charging policies, stepped-up criminalization of immigrants — in the current climate, joining the NACDL is more important than ever. Members of NACDL help to support the only national organization working at all levels of government to ensure that the voice of the defense bar is heard.
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NACDL is committed to enhancing the capacity of the criminal defense bar to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights.
NACDL harnesses the unique perspectives of NACDL members to advocate for policy and practice improvements in the criminal legal system.
NACDL envisions a society where all individuals receive fair, rational, and humane treatment within the criminal legal system.
NACDL’s mission is to serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully equipped to serve all accused persons at the highest level.
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Powerpoint slides by Gregory J. Davis, MD, FCAP. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Mishka Terplan, MD MPH FACOG DFASAM. Presented at NACDL's webinar Post Roe: Building Defenses in Pregnancy-Related Prosecutions in July 2022
Powerpoint slides by Lisa Wayne. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Melinda Pendergraph. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Wendy Bach and Purvaja Kavattur. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Emma Roth. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Kim Burroughs and Kandra Roberts. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Powerpoint slides by Wendy Bach and Stephen Ross Johnson. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Access to comprehensive reproductive health care services, including abortion care, is essential to individual health and well-being. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule (Privacy Rule) supports such access by giving individuals confidence that their protected health information (PHI),3 including information relating to abortion and other sexual and reproductive health care, will be kept private.
Your health information provides insight into the personal, often-sensitive details of your life. Protecting the privacy and security of this information, including what doctors you visit and what medical treatments or services you receive, allows you to control who has access to information about you, how much access they have, and when they have access. This enables you to protect yourself from potential discrimination, identity theft, or harm to your reputation.
Read NAPW's first-of-its-kind issue brief detailing the personhood movement, its legal doctrine, applications, implications, constitutional and statutory interpretation arguments against personhood measures, and practical legislative recommendations for policymakers and related disciplines.
This issue brief summarizes laws, currently in effect in 38 states, authorizing homicide charges for causing pregnancy loss (fetal homicide laws). It outlines the different forms they take and how the laws' language treat zygotes, embryos, and fetuses as human beings — a concept much more threatening to the health and wellbeing of people with the capacity for pregnancy now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
This guide is designed to educate and provide practical tools for law enforcement, defense attorneys, child welfare workers, healthcare providers, medical examiners, and legislators to stop the criminalization of pregnancy.
Cruel and unusual punishment involves the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain or terror or disgrace “to the dignity of man” and may be invoked as a defense in a criminal case.
The increasing risk that the Supreme Court will overturn federal constitutional abortion protections has refocused attention on the role digital service providers of all kinds play in facilitating access to health information, education, and care—and the data they collect in return.
