WLP has been making national news, and we wanted to give you an update on where things stand in our fight to eliminate the biggest barrier to equitable abortion care in Pennsylvania.
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In April, we celebrated a major victory for WLP and all Pennsylvanians when Commonwealth Court recognized that all Pennsylvanians have the fundamental right to reproductive autonomy. The ruling in our case, Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, overturned the state’s discriminatory ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion.
Then, on May 19, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday filed notice of appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — choosing to use his office and Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars to try to take away our rights and deprive people on Medicaid of access to critical healthcare.
Since then, we’ve been busy doing what we always do (and what we’ve been doing since 2019 in this specific case!): fighting to defend the rights of all Pennsylvanians, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, class, disability, incarceration, pregnancy, and immigration status.
Rulings like our victory are automatically put on pause while under appeal, but we will not simply allow the Medicaid ban to continue harming Pennsylvanians while we wait for our next court date.
We formally asked the Court to allow the ruling to remain in effect while the appeal proceeds. While we wait for the Court, the sad reality is that right now, because of the attorney general’s appeal, Pennsylvanians who rely on Medicaid coverage will be actively deniedreproductive healthcare for even longer.
We’ll continue to use the legal tools at our disposal to fight for abortion access NOW while we continue our fight in the courts.
