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Why I Wrote "Day Room Window"
Guest Blog by Playwright Bonnie Cohen on her new play – based on true experience - about girls incarcerated in adult prison opens at The New Hazlett Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) October 16 – 25, 2014 In 1989, after ten years as a theatre professor and twenty years as an...
Pittsburgh Passes "Reasonable Accommodations" for Pregnant Workers
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff Pittsburgh City Council passed legislation that calls for “reasonable accommodations” for pregnant women who work for the city or city contracts, and bans discrimination against pregnant employees. The ordinance, Reasonable Accommodations Due...
Women’s Law Project Joins Nationwide Coalition Calling on Department of Justice to Denounce Enhanced Sentence for Pregnant Woman
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff Women’s Law Project joined New Voices Philadelphia: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice, New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice, and a coalition of 48 reproductive justice, drug policy reform, women’s rights and...
September, We Hardly Knew Ye
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff First, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tara Murtha, and I’m the newest member of the Women’s Law Project team. I’ll be working on strategic communications, which includes corresponding with you, our beloved constituent and...
Family Caps are Still Considered Birth Control in Pennsylvania
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff The U.S. Census Bureau’s new report on family income reveals that 14.5 percent of all Americans, 45.3 million people, live in poverty. That’s two percentage points higher than 2007, before the recession. Pennsylvania is no exception. In 2011,...
