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Action Alert: Tell Your State Lawmakers Every Pennsylvanian Should Count in 2020
Pennsylvania is at risk of an undercount in the 2020 Census. Our state receives over $39 billion in annual funding from the 55 largest federal programs that rely on Census data to calculate funding, and if every Pennsylvanian isn’t counted next year, the Commonwealth...
WLP Files Brief Supporting Federal Court Challenge to Trump’s Contraception Rules
Attorneys at the Women’s Law Project filed an amicus brief in support of the Pennsylvania Attorney General in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Trump, a federal court challenge to the Trump contraceptive coverage rules that permit employers to refuse to cover birth...
Remembering & Honoring Evelyn Bouden, MD
We’d like to take a moment to remember a very special person, pioneer physician, and former Women’s Law Project telephone counselor, Dr. Evelyn Sydnor Bouden. Dr. Evelyn Sydnor Bouden of Philadelphia died March 14, 2019 at age 94. Evelyn volunteered at the WLP...
We’re in Court Again to Protect Abortion Providers
WLP attorney Susan J. Frietsche was in Commonwealth Court on Monday June 3, 2019 where she argued on behalf of Pennsylvania abortion providers in one of four active lawsuits we are currently involved in to help protect doctors, staff, and patients amid a stark rise in...
Case Closed: Alleged Behavior While Pregnant Not Child Abuse Under Civil Law in PA
On May 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States denied the county’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari, officially declining to review the ruling of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the case known as In re: LJB. That means In re: LJB is closed, and we won...
