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Today: Marching for Black Lives. Listening to Black Voices.
“It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.” Martin Luther King, Jr. said these words while delivering his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Today, exactly 57 years later, tens of...
The Trump/DeVos Title IX Rules Go In Effect Today
Unfortunately, the day is upon us: The new Trump/DeVos Title IX rules go into effect Friday, August 14, 2020. Colleges and universities across the nation are now required to comply with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' changes to Title IX, a 1972 law...
New Study: Why Legal Abortion Doesn’t Ensure Access to Abortion
The constant legal battle to keep the doors of abortion providers open for patients can obscure the fact that legal abortion is the bare-minimum starting point for ensuring equitable access to safe, affordable abortion care. We already know that targeted attacks on...
Good News: Philadelphia is the Latest City to Rally Behind Equal Pay
The City of Philadelphia announced that the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) will begin enforcing the Wage Equity Ordinance on September 1, 2020. That means that as of September 1, it is illegal for employers to ask about or require you to disclose...
WLP Opposes Defense Tactic of Introducing Rape Victims’ Convictions for Prostitution
Attorneys at the Women’s Law Project, in partnership with AEquitas, authored and filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of 26 additional organizations devoted to improving judicial and societal responses to...
