First Amendment Does Not Give Church Leaders Right to Impose Beliefs on Women

by | Jun 15, 2012 | Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, Health insurance, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

Terry L. Fromson, Women’s Law Project Managing Attorney Advancing the church’s unrelenting pursuit of control over women’s reproductive lives, Joe Watkins’ op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on June 3 (Mandate for health services touches full religious...

Pennsylvania House Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood

by | Jun 12, 2012 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women's health

Nikki Ditto and Molly Duerig, WLP Interns A bill recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, HB 2405, aims to bar state and federal funds from going to health care clinics that provide abortions. Titled the “Whole Women’s Health Funding...

AIDS Researchers Sideline Women: An Example of Sex Bias in Drug Treatment Trials

by | May 29, 2012 | Drug Trials, Gender Discrimination, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, People of Color, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women's health

Guest Blogger:  Elizabeth Wingfield, Former WLP Intern A recent Los Angeles Times  editorial revealed that women are underrepresented in clinical trials of ways to treat and prevent HIV infection. While men make up 75% of the U.S. population living with HIV, women...

A Lawsuit in Federal Court Seeks to Lift the Obama Administration’s Emergency Contraception Decision

by | May 23, 2012 | Contraception, Courts, Emergency Contraception, Family Planning, Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

A federal district court in New York is considering “whether to force the federal government to lift the age restrictions on over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives.” This lawsuit, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, alleges that the Food and Drug...
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