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Know Your Rights: Pregnancy & the Workplace
Currently, neither federal nor Pennsylvania state law ensures pregnant people have access to temporary, reasonable workplace accommodations. Such protections for pregnant people are all the more important in a country with zero guaranteed paid leave, which means many...
Honors for WLP’s Amal Bass & What’s Next in Harrisburg
Anti-abortion constitutional amendment Senate Bill 956 is the first step to fully criminalizing and/or banning abortion in Pennsylvania, and we need your help to stop it. Constitutional amendments are bills that must pass both houses two sessions in a row and then...
Defending Transgender Pennsylvanians on Trans Day of Visibility & Every Day
On Transgender Visibility Day, we wish we could simply celebrate the joy, resilience, and beauty of gender-diverse and transgender Pennsylvanians. Unfortunately, Republican leaders in Harrisburg have chosen this week to repeatedly misgender transgender students and...
Action Alert: Protect Gender-Diverse & Transgender Kids in Pennsylvania
We just learned that Pennsylvania lawmakers are once again pushing the anti-transgender bill that targets gender-diverse teen and child student-athletes. We told you about Pennsylvania House Bill 972 when it was introduced last year. This legislation has been...
Today at 4PM: WLP Discussing Privacy Threat Posed by CPCs on FBK Live with Abortion Access Front
We recently expanded on our groundbreaking report on the modern crisis pregnancy center industry published in collaboration with our partners in the Alliance and California Women's Law Center by releasing an urgent brief focused on alerting you to the ways the CPC...
Today is (Another) Equal Pay Day
Today we once again recognize the inequities that cause women to be paid less than men are paid. The gendered impact of the pandemic has made it clear: The gender pay gap is a systemic problem, and we need corrective policy to fix it. Over the last two years, the...
Thanking Dr. Lisa Perriera on Abortion Provider Appreciation Day
Today is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Of course, we appreciate physicians who provide abortion and the staff who support them and patients every day. They provide essential healthcare, despite the risks of working in a field that has been dangerously...
PA Lawmaker Announces Legislation to Protect Your Data from Anti-Abortion Activists
When abortion is criminalized, pregnancy is policed. Earlier this week, we issued an urgent brief in partnership with The Alliance warning about a new legislative scheme state lawmakers and anti-abortion activists designed to enable crisis pregnancy centers and...
Statement on our New Brief: The CPC Industry as a Surveillance Tool of the Post-Roe State
Today, in collaboration with partners in The Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality and California Women’s Law Center, we're releasing an urgent warning of the role the crisis pregnancy center (CPC) industry is poised to play surveilling...
WLP Statement on Chambersburg Revoking LGBTQ+ Protections
The Women’s Law Project condemns the decision of Borough of Chambersburg to repeal protections for residents who experience discrimination based on their sexual orientation, ethnicity, or gender identity. Pennsylvania remains the only state in the northeast without...
