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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...
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...