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Urgent Action Alert: The AHCA is Catastrophic for Women’s Health #ProtectOurCare
The U.S. House will vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) this afternoon. The AHCA is the makeshift pseudo-replacement for the Affordable Care Act. In fact, it is not really a healthcare plan at all as much as it is a tax cut for the wealthy and a gift to...
Report: Pennsylvania Women Not On Track for Equal Pay Until 2068
A baby girl born today will likely never achieve equal pay in her lifetime in 13 states unless we narrow the pay gap with corrective policy, according to a new state-by-state analysis published by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. In Pennsylvania, if...
WLP Files Court Brief to Protect Scientists from Anti-Abortion Harassment & Violence
The Women’s Law Project just filed an amici brief on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Feminist Majority Foundation in support of plaintiff scientists and researchers in a key reproductive rights case concerning protecting targets of anti-abortion...
Warning: PA SB 241 is a Fake Equal Pay Bill
We’ve gone from fake news to fake bills. It’s important that you are aware that SB 241, legislation its supporters tout as an equal pay fix, is absolutely not what it needed. In fact, it would reverse equal pay protections in Philadelphia. WLP Managing Attorney Terry...
Anti-Choice Organization Sues PA Auditor General for Auditing Them
Just in: Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene Pasquale released a statement today announcing that Real Alternatives, a Pennsylvania-based network of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” is suing him for conducting an audit of how they are spending taxpayer dollars....
