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Pass SB 942: Redemption for Survivors of Abuse Serving Life Without Parole
Pennsylvania is one of seven states and DC where women who kill their abusers may be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, except in the rare case of a gubernatorial pardon. All life sentences in Pennsylvania are imposed without the possibility of...
After Losing 5 Federal Lawsuits, Trump Admin Resumes Funding Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just announced it will resume grants for groups working to prevent teen pregnancies, a reversal from last year's sudden announcement that it would abruptly end the program. The Obama-era Teen Pregnancy Prevention...
WLP Joins Brief Defending Immigrant Minors’ Right to Abortion
You may remember the case: A young pregnant immigrant woman called Jane Doe wanted an abortion, but officials at the Trump Administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) tried to unconstitutionally block her from obtaining one. ORR officials forced this young...
WLP Testifies at Policy Hearing About Equal Pay for Black Women in Pennsylvania
Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day of the year a Black woman has to work to catch up to the wages a non-Hispanic white man earned in 2017, on average. In Pennsylvania, Black women are paid just 68 cents for every dollar paid to a white man. This afternoon,...
How Pregnant Women Are Excluded From Evidence-Based Efforts to Address the Opioid Epidemic
After years of hitting the snooze button as alarms blared, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officially declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency in October 2017. By the time of the declaration, the annual death toll was...
