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The United States Supreme Court has weighed in: The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

by Barbara DiTullio | Jun 28, 2012 | Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Maternity Coverage, Women's health

By Women’s Law Project The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law by President Obama in March 2010, expands health insurance coverage to more than 30 million people, prevents insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing...

House Passes DHS Spending Bill with Anti-Choice Rider

by Barbara DiTullio | Jun 26, 2012 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Congress, Government, Health Care, Immigrants, Women's health

Elizabeth Wingfield, Former WLP Intern On June 7, the House passed a Homeland Security spending bill which included a provision that would prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from providing abortions to undocumented women who are detained. The measure...

The Hypocrisy of Cuts to Medicaid Reimbursements for Newborn Care

by Barbara DiTullio | Jun 21, 2012 | Health Care, Maternity Coverage, PA Law, Uncategorized, Women's health

Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney When Pennsylvania’s politicians say they are for protecting the unborn, they mean it literally: the minute you’re born, you’re on your own. Last month, Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare (DPW), which is run by Governor Tom...

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

by Barbara DiTullio | 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...

White House Holds Town Hall on Women’s Health

by Barbara DiTullio | Jun 15, 2012 | Health Care, Health insurance, Maternity Coverage, Women's health

Molly Cohen, WLP Intern With the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2010 Affordable Care Act looming on the horizon, the White House recently held a town hall meeting on Women’s Health to tout the benefits of the Act. Panel members included Valerie Jarrett (Senior Advisor...

Pennsylvania House Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood

by Barbara DiTullio | 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...

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