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Action Alert: Lawmakers Vote on a Permanent Anti-Abortion Constitutional Amendment and to Defund Preventative Reproductive Healthcare Today
This morning, Pennsylvania lawmakers will vote on two dangerous bills with the explicit focus of restricting access to a broad range of reproductive healthcare. Permanent Anti-Abortion Constitutional Amendment (SB 956 – J. Ward) We recently told you about the proposed...
Roe at 49: The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do Right Now to Save Reproductive Rights in Pennsylvania
The appalling truth is that this may be last the year to witness the anniversary of landmark case Roe v. Wade. There’s a lot to say about the radical regression of reproductive rights in the United States and how this devolution is playing out at the U.S. Supreme...
Urgent: Stop Unconstitutional Targeting of Parents of Color in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawmakers are advancing a bill that would enable unconstitutional intrusions of the government into a family’s private sphere and compound the child welfare system’s disproportionate targeting of people of color. Pennsylvania House Bill 1737 was...
Victory: Opinion Affirms Schools Must Respond to Reports of Dating Violence Under Title IX, With No Exception for Visitors or Guests
We are pleased to share an important victory in the effort to hold federally funded schools accountable for ensuring equitable access to education by appropriately responding to reports of students experiencing sex-based discrimination, including intimate partner...
URGENT: Speak Up NOW to Save Pennsylvania Courts
Our judiciary is under attack again. Will you speak up to save our courts? After months of silence, we just got word that extremist Pennsylvania lawmakers abruptly scheduled the judicial gerrymandering constitutional amendment bill (HB 38 - Diamond) for debate and...
What Your Support Helped Us Accomplish This Year
As we pause to reflect on 2021, we think of course of the lives of the people we exist to serve, people whose access to healthcare, abortion, a livable wage, workplace justice, and/or physical safety has been pushed out of reach due to sexism, racism, and anti-LGBTQ+...
What You Need to Know About Abortion Rights in Pennsylvania
You must understand the unique situation unfolding here in Pennsylvania. In short, while the U.S. Constitution notoriously does not have an Equal Rights Amendment, Pennsylvania's state constitution has an equal rights provision, as well as an equal protection clause....
F.D.A. Allows Abortion Pills by Mail
After reviewing decades-old guidelines regarding the administration of medication abortion, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is lifting a medically unnecessary mandate known as the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, the first...
Victory: Harrisburg Buffer Zone Upheld as Anti-Abortion Harassment Escalates
We are pleased to let you know that the 3rd Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling refusing to preliminarily enjoin the City of Harrisburg’s statutory buffer zone despite anti-abortion activists’ ongoing attempts to knock it down. Two of the few continuously-enforced...
WLP Case Explainer: Abortion Rights at the U.S. Supreme Court on December 1
Primary issues: Abortion rights, mass incarceration Oral Arguments: December 1, 2021. Arguments will be livestreamed at 10AM. You can listen here. WLP’s Role in the Case: WLP joined an amicus curiae (“friend of the court) brief filed by National Women’s Law Center...
