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URGENT: The Midnight Raid to Eliminate Reproductive Rights in Pennsylvania
Late last night, while most of us were sleeping, Pennsylvania’s anti-abortion lawmakers conspiratorially convened at the last minute to eliminate our reproductive rights against the will of the people. Specifically, led by Sen. Kim Ward, they pulled language from the...
From Carol Tracy: Introducing New Leadership at WLP
After 32 years at the helm, I have retired as Executive Director of the Women’s Law Project. I am pleased and proud to announce that WLP Director of Policy & Advocacy Amal Bass, based in the Philadelphia office, and Susan J. Frietsche, founder and director of...
Updated: WLP Statement on Dobbs Ruling & Overturning Roe
[Note: This statement was updated in July 2022 to note reflect legislative changes regarding the No Right to Abortion constitutional amendment.] Abortion is still legal and facilities that provide abortion care are still open in Pennsylvania. Today, the U.S. Supreme...
WLP Applauds New Title IX Guidelines
PENNSYLVANIA - Today, fifty years to the day Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 was passed into law, the U.S. Department of Education issued new proposed rules governing how schools that receive federal funding must respond to sex-based discrimination....
WLP Launches Program to Help Pennsylvanians Facing Pregnancy & Lactation Discrimination
Women’s Law Project, a state-based public interest legal organization focused on gender justice with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, announces a new program to help pregnant and lactating people in Pennsylvania navigate workplace and school-based...
LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day
June 15 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day. This day is an opportunity to spread awareness about wage gap data on LGBTQIA+ workers, as well as the general disparities that continue to affect the LGBTQIA+ communities. LGBTQ+ workers are paid approximately 90 cents...
[Action Alert] June in Harrisburg: Banning Abortion & Bullying Trans Kids
Pennsylvania has the lowest minimum wage and one of the highest rates of pregnancy discrimination complaints in the country, and a bill to provide reasonable accommodations for lactating employees so they can continue breastfeeding after returning to work is still...
We’re Calling for an Investigation
Fifty years into Title IX, achieving equitable opportunity for education remains a huge challenge. Laws are passed but then not uniformly enforced. Policies are clarified only to discover some school administrations learn how to strategically skirt mandates and...
PA Senate to Vote on First Step to Criminalizing Abortion
Abortion is still legal in Pennsylvania. But as we await the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (expected in late June), anti-abortion lawmakers across the country aren’t even waiting for the ruling to try to criminalize abortion...
WLP Statement in Response to Leaked U.S. Supreme Court Draft Opinion
Abortion is healthcare and is still legal in Pennsylvania. Women’s Law Project, like the rest of the country, has seen the leaked early draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned...
