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WLP Calls on Congress to Pass the Emergency Paid Leave Protections in the COVID-19 Stimulus Response Plan
The Pennsylvania women and families we serve are in desperate need of paid leave to survive this pandemic. Congressional emergency paid leave benefits provided in the 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) expired on December 31, 2020. The limited...
Emergency: Help Stop Trumpist PA Lawmakers from Destroying Our Courts
We need your help to defeat one of the biggest threats to democracy we have ever seen in our nearly five decades working in the Commonwealth. HB38 is a constitutional amendment that seeks to destroy the independence of Pennsylvania’s appellate courts through judicial...
Reproductive Rights in Pennsylvania at #Roe48
Today marks the 48th anniversary of the day the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in the landmark case Roe V. Wade. If you've never listened to the arguments, you can do that here. Forty-eight years after Roe, reproductive advocates find...
As a New Day Dawns in DC, We Need All Eyes On Harrisburg
Today, an Administration that actively harmed women, Black people, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and low-wage workers has been replaced by an Administration that includes Kamala Harris, the first woman, first Black person, and first...
We Are Fighting Anti-Abortion Terrorism in the Georgia “Heckler’s Veto” Case
On Wednesday, oral arguments in an important anti-abortion harassment case called McBrayer v. Governors Ridge Office Park Association began in the Georgia Court of Appeals just as impeachment proceedings opened on the hill. The timing is a chilling coincidence: At...
