Emma Ketteringham, JD, is the Director of Legal Advocacy for National Advocates for Pregnant Women. There she is counsel and strategist on criminal and civil child welfare cases that are at the intersection of the war on women and the war on drugs. She came to NAPW from The Bronx Defenders, where she was a criminal defense attorney and later became the Deputy Managing Attorney of the family law practice. Ms. Ketteringham trained and supervised attorneys who represented parents in abuse, neglect and termination of parental rights proceedings and participated in numerous court-based and independent coalitions to develop pro-family policies and practices in New York City. Previously, Ms. Ketteringham was a litigation associate at Lansner and Kubitschek where she represented parents and children in state and federal court and at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she worked on complex civil litigation. Ms. Ketteringham clerked for two federal judges, first in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, then at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has also worked as a Legal Assistant at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and as a law clerk at the American Civil Liberties Union for Southern California. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College.
Must “restoring the historic right to life accorded to unborn children” require that women, including new mothers who have given birth, go to prison?
