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The Questions No One is Asking about the Kermit Gosnell Case…

by Barbara DiTullio | Apr 4, 2013 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Reproductive Rights, Women's health, WomenVote PA

By Carol E.Tracy and Kate Michelman With Kermit Gosnell’s criminal trial underway in Philadelphia, public outrage at the physician accused of murdering one woman and seven infants increases with each grisly new piece of evidence. But the Gosnell trial raises several...

Roe v. Wade 40 Years Later: How Far Have We Come?*

by Barbara DiTullio | Jan 22, 2013 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

By Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy January 22nd marks the fortieth anniversary of landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a historic milestone for women in America, because this right to control our capacity to reproduce – including our right...

Roe v. Wade: The Fortieth Anniversary

by Barbara DiTullio | Jan 17, 2013 | Abortion, Abortion Access, Reproductive Rights, Women's health

WLP Staff Request: Next week, we will recognize the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the monumental decision in which the United States Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy. Over these...

Women’s rights fight has moved to state level

by Barbara DiTullio | Dec 14, 2012 | Abortion Access, Contraception, Equality, Reproductive Rights, Women's health, WomenVote PA

Op-Ed by Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, December 9, 2012 That Mitt Romney was stunned by his defeat says much about his and others’ blindness to the divergent forces that carried Barack Obama to victory. Imagine the...

Court Ruling: Hobby Lobby Cannot Deny Contraceptive Coverage to its Employees

by Barbara DiTullio | Nov 28, 2012 | Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Health Care, Health insurance, Reproductive Rights, Uncategorized, Women's health

By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney On November 19, 2012, an Oklahoma federal court denied Hobby Lobby’s motion for a preliminary injunction, telling the business and its co-plaintiff (Mardel, another business owned by the same family trust) that they would be unlikely...

UPDATE RE: H.B. 2718 Would Penalize Women on TANF for Having Children Unless They Are Survivors of “Legitimate” Rape

by Barbara DiTullio | Oct 23, 2012 | PA Law, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pregnancy, Rape, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Assault, Welfare, Women's health, Working poor

UPDATE (10/26/12): Within three days of the publication of this blog post, three of the six house sponsors of H.B. 2718 have removed their names from the sponsorship of the bill. The prime sponsor, Rep. RoseMarie Swanger, defended the bill initially, but reversed...

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