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Join Us at Rights to Realities This Friday, May 14
Join us to celebrate another year of fighting for gender equality! We hope to see you this Friday, May 14 at our virtual event, Rights to Realities, where you can connect with other supporters, hear from our special guests, and chat with staff members of the Women’s...
WLP & PA Advocates Condemn Today’s “Pro-life Hearing” in the PA House Health Committee
Instead of addressing Pennsylvania's maternal mortality crisis or how to best ensure an equitable pandemic recovery, the House Health Committee in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is once again hosting what they are calling a "pro-life"/abortion hearing. The...
Hearing #2: False Claims, Bizarre Exchanges & Real Alternatives Hiding from Public Scrutiny
Chair of the Health Committee in the Pennsylvania House Rep. Kathy Rapp, also chair of the Pro-life Caucus, at last week's anti-abortion hearings in Pennsylvania Instead of working to protect pregnant workers from COVID-19 or addressing the maternal mortality crisis,...
WLP Op-ed: PA lawmakers are pushing bills that would increase maternal mortality
Pennsylvania is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to be pregnant due to the actions, and inaction, of the longtime majority leadership of the General Assembly. The outright abandonment of pregnant Pennsylvanians could not be made clearer by the fact that amid a...
Pennsylvania’s Maternal Mortality Crisis is Severely Stratified by Race
This week is Black Maternal Health Week #BMHW21! Of course, maternal health means a lot more than preventing unnecessary injury and death in childbirth, but given the extreme disparities revealed in a new report and the fact that we know COVID-19 is exacerbating...
