http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/roe-v-wade-at-forty-beyond-pro-choice/

Once we started talking about the “war on drugs/women” and pro-choice vs pro-life I remembered this article by Lynn Paltrow, in which she discussed the many links between the war on drugs and the war on women. I had been pretty aware of the statistics on Black/Latino men making up the majority of the U.S. prison system as a result of the war on drugs, marginalization, racial profiling and other injustices and I hear a lot of people talking about these issues, especially surrounding the legalization of marijuana in certain states and in the recent gun-law debates. I have also heard a lot of people refer to the current justice system as a “new slave system” and I know how corrupt the justice system can be towards anyone of a non-privileged background with some great connections but I never really imagined pregnant women suffering under this system as a result of not only drug laws but laws that completely undermine the civil rights of pregnant women and all women when it comes to birth-control. The statistics she mentions are frightening and she makes a lot of eye-opening points.