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Victory: Harrisburg Buffer Zone Upheld as Anti-Abortion Harassment Escalates
We are pleased to let you know that the 3rd Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling refusing to preliminarily enjoin the City of Harrisburg’s statutory buffer zone despite anti-abortion activists’ ongoing attempts to knock it down. Two of the few continuously-enforced...
WLP Case Explainer: Abortion Rights at the U.S. Supreme Court on December 1
Primary issues: Abortion rights, mass incarceration Oral Arguments: December 1, 2021. Arguments will be livestreamed at 10AM. You can listen here. WLP’s Role in the Case: WLP joined an amicus curiae (“friend of the court) brief filed by National Women’s Law Center...
Carol Tracy Announces Major News About the Future of WLP
From the desk of WLP Executive Director Carol E. Tracy: I have had the honor and privilege of leading the Women’s Law Project - a historic, dynamic, creative, lean, powerhouse organization – for the last 31 years of its 47-year history. I’m writing to personally share...
WLP’s Carol Tracy on the Power of Collective Action
“If there is one lesson, it is the power of joining forces,” WLP Executive Director Carol Tracy said in a recent profile in 34th Street, a publication run by students at University of Pennsylvania, where Tracy teaches courses on gender and the law. “Collective work is...
This Friday Nov. 19: Please Join Us at Our Virtual Gala!
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the case that may further gut or outright overturn Roe, please join us for this year’s (virtual) party in Philadelphia for an update on our tireless work to protect and expand reproductive rights in Pennsylvania....
