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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....
Does Your Local Hospital Refuse to Provide Emergency Contraception to Rape Victims?
In Pennsylvania, hospitals that refuse to provide sexual-assault patients with emergency contraception due to stated moral or religious belief must submit that decision to the state department of health, so that Pennsylvanians have the information necessary to seek...
Why We’re Working Today in Solidarity with the Women’s Strike
March 8 is International Women’s Day and, this year, organizers of the historic Women’s Marches have designated today as a women’s strike they are calling “A Day Without a Woman.” From the announcement: “In the same spirit of love and liberation that inspired the...
WLP Statement on Proposal to Defund Planned Parenthood
President Trump’s reported threat to defund Planned Parenthood unless the organization stops providing safe, legal abortion care is the epitome of pro-life hypocrisy. Just last year, the president himself admitted that Planned Parenthood’s low-cost healthcare helps...
