Image Descriptions

Image 1

A dark purple banner on bright yellow background reads “Do No Harm: Criminalization through Medical Care.”

Criminalization of reproductive autonomy (purple cloud): Due to colonization, racism, eugenics, ableism, heterosexual-patriarchy and capitalism. 

Participation in criminalization (dark purple rectangle): (1) Criminalizing non-compliance (2) Collaborating with the state: punishment under guise of care or research (3) Increasing risk of criminalization.

Criminalization through accessing medical care (purple cloud): pregnant people, disabled folks, drug users, parents, migrants, people in sex trades, LGBTQ people. 

Principles (light purple rectangle): (1) Learn from most impacted (2) End medically unnecessary drug testing (3) End mandatory reporting (4) End practice of supporting prosecution in HIV criminalization cases (5) End practice of calling police for fraudulent IDs (6) End police and ICE presences (7) Stop calling law enforcement on folks with unmet mental health needs (8) Stop providing substandard and or violative care in jails, prisons, detention facilities (9 and 10) Stop supporting prosecution (11) Stop punishing other providers (12) Form relationships, defend self-care, protect, welcome, advocate.

Light purple flag reads “APHA Resolultion Passed” with [SITE] endingpolice.com written over it. Underneath it reads “Policing and incarceration are public health issues. Abolition is evidence-based.”

Beyond do no harm (large dark purple square): Medical providers and public health professionals recommit to caring for people by refusing to participate in criminalization. 

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A dark purple banner on bright yellow background reads “Do No Harm: Criminalization through Medical Care.”

Panelists (Dr. Jamila Perritt, Christine Mitchell, Indra Lusero, Erin Miles Cloud, Yveka Pierre, Gabriel Arkles, and Dara Baldwin) are listed on the banner.

A small pink banner reads “Building on the Resolution and Document” over three purple clouds. An arrow leading away from the banner reads “Clearly outlining connection” and more arrows lead to the words “Get into good trouble.”

Cloud 1: How our work (criminalization and medical care) intersects: Trans existence criminalization, specifically trans of color; Self-community managed gender-affirming care; Drug tests to pregnant people and new parents; Criminalization in hospital and exam rooms; Criminalization for intended and unintended pregnancy outcomes; Public health model is ableist (sterilization, coercion, violence, and harm in state institutions); Folks seeks care and get handcuffs; Criminalization for lack of care; Criminalization of HIV.

Cloud 2: Practical Guidance: Do not support prosecution of cases of self-managed care; End mandatory reporting; Listen to people most directly impacted; End police presence in hospitals; Support self-managed care; End interrogations in hospital rooms (think critically: this impacts care).

Cloud 3: Laws, Guidance, and Statements that Support: Informed consent laws; Participate in care, rerooting in what help really is; ADA is about civil rights; Professional practices and statements: privacy containment, HIV criminalization, affirming care; Human rights law; Mandatory reporting does not require you to turn over an entire chart; Get to know your community!