Special November-December Wrap Up!

by | Dec 30, 2014 | Health Care, Health insurance, Medicaid, PA Legislature, pregnancy discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, pregnant workers fairness, Rape, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Assault, women voting, Women's health

By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff Welcome to a special end-of-the-year, double-month wrap-up. It’s been a bit, but hmm, what happened in November? Oh, right: Pennsylvanians broke from a sixty-year state history and national trend to elect a new governor into office in...

October Roundup

by | Nov 10, 2014 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Allegheny County, Athletic Equity, Childbirth, Contraception, Courts, Domestic violence, economic security, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, pregnancy discrimination, pregnant workers fairness, Reproductive Rights, The New York Times, Title IX, Women's health, Women's Law Project, WomenVote PA

B y Tara Murtha, WLP Staff With a new Governor coming to Harrisburg, we have a lot of work to do to get ready for the next legislative session. In the meantime, let’s get up to speed on what went down in October, in case you missed it the first time around. First, the...

Family Caps are Still Considered Birth Control in Pennsylvania

by | Sep 23, 2014 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Economic Justice, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Rape, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Assault, Welfare, Women's health, working mothers, Working poor

By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff The U.S. Census Bureau’s new report on family income reveals that 14.5 percent of all Americans, 45.3 million people, live in poverty. That’s two percentage points higher than 2007, before the recession. Pennsylvania is no exception. In 2011,...
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