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Roe v. Wade 40 Years Later: How Far Have We Come?*
By Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy January 22nd marks the fortieth anniversary of landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a historic milestone for women in America, because this right to control our capacity to reproduce - including our right to...
Roe v. Wade: The Fortieth Anniversary
WLP Staff Request: Next week, we will recognize the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the monumental decision in which the United States Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy. Over these...
Women’s rights fight has moved to state level
Op-Ed by Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, December 9, 2012 That Mitt Romney was stunned by his defeat says much about his and others’ blindness to the divergent forces that carried Barack Obama to victory. Imagine the...
Court Ruling: Hobby Lobby Cannot Deny Contraceptive Coverage to its Employees
By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney On November 19, 2012, an Oklahoma federal court denied Hobby Lobby’s motion for a preliminary injunction, telling the business and its co-plaintiff (Mardel, another business owned by the same family trust) that they would be unlikely...
PA Lawmakers Should Care More about the Health of the Commonwealth’s Residents
By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney With the uncertainty of the 2012 elections behind us, we know that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — known to many friends and foes alike as “Obamacare” — is here to stay, with most of its provisions having passed constitutional muster...
