Health Care | Women's Law Project

Doctors Aren't Dummies: Support the Patient Trust Act

by Barbara DiTullio | Sep 16, 2014 | Contraception, Health Care, Health insurance, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

By Kate Michelman, WomenVote PA and Susan Frietsche, WLP Senior Staff Attorney Doctors aren’t dummies. They don’t need politicians to tell them what they can and can’t say to patients, or how to administer tests and treatments. On September 8, the...

Let's Leave Politics Behind for the Sake of Healthcare

by Barbara DiTullio | Jul 7, 2014 | Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Medicaid, Pennsylvania, Women's health, working mothers, Working poor, working women

By Kate Michelman and Carol E. Tracy Pennsylvania is facing a 1.3 billion deficit and the annual state budget is due June 30. The obvious solution is to expand Medicaid, but some Pennsylvania legislators won’t consider it. When Governor Corbett rejected...

Pregnant Workers Have More Rights in New Jersey Than in Pennsylvania

by Barbara DiTullio | Jan 22, 2014 | economic security, Health Care, PA Legislature, Philadelphia City Council, Pregnancy, pregnant workers fairness, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill that expands the anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation protections of New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD). The NJLAD will now...

The Corbett Administration’s Unhealthy Pennsylvania Proposal

by Barbara DiTullio | Jan 21, 2014 | Health Care, Health insurance, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Women's health

By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney Instead of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, as all of Pennsylvania’s neighboring states have done, the Corbett Administration has proposed a different plan in its Healthy Pennsylvania 1115 Application (“Healthy...

Pennsylvania is Failing Women

by Barbara DiTullio | Oct 17, 2013 | Domestic violence, Economic Justice, economic security, Family Violence, Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Violence Against Women, Voter turnout, women voting, Women's health, women's rights, WomenVote PA, working mothers, working women

By Kate Michelman and Sue Frietsche So much for Pennsylvania as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. A report last month from the Center for American Progress offered some alarming statistics about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the way it treats the six...

Pennsylvania Women’s Advocacy Leaders Condemn Anti-Obamacare Ad

by Barbara DiTullio | Sep 24, 2013 | Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Women's health

Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy Call for Immediate Stop to Ad Leaders from women’s rights advocacy group the Women’s Law Project and its action arm WomenVote PA, expressed strong condemnation today about the anti-Obamacare ad from the group Generation Opportunity and...

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