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Urgent: Stop Unconstitutional Targeting of Parents of Color in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawmakers are advancing a bill that would enable unconstitutional intrusions of the government into a family’s private sphere and compound the child welfare system’s disproportionate targeting of people of color. Pennsylvania House Bill 1737 was...
Victory: Opinion Affirms Schools Must Respond to Reports of Dating Violence Under Title IX, With No Exception for Visitors or Guests
We are pleased to share an important victory in the effort to hold federally funded schools accountable for ensuring equitable access to education by appropriately responding to reports of students experiencing sex-based discrimination, including intimate partner...
URGENT: Speak Up NOW to Save Pennsylvania Courts
Our judiciary is under attack again. Will you speak up to save our courts? After months of silence, we just got word that extremist Pennsylvania lawmakers abruptly scheduled the judicial gerrymandering constitutional amendment bill (HB 38 - Diamond) for debate and...
What Your Support Helped Us Accomplish This Year
As we pause to reflect on 2021, we think of course of the lives of the people we exist to serve, people whose access to healthcare, abortion, a livable wage, workplace justice, and/or physical safety has been pushed out of reach due to sexism, racism, and anti-LGBTQ+...
What You Need to Know About Abortion Rights in Pennsylvania
You must understand the unique situation unfolding here in Pennsylvania. In short, while the U.S. Constitution notoriously does not have an Equal Rights Amendment, Pennsylvania's state constitution has an equal rights provision, as well as an equal protection clause....
