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Women’s rights fight has moved to state level
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 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...
PA Lawmakers Should Care More about the Health of the Commonwealth’s Residents
By Amal Bass, WLP Staff Attorney With the uncertainty of the 2012 elections behind us, we know that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — known to many friends and foes alike as “Obamacare” — is here to stay, with most of its provisions having passed constitutional muster...
UPDATE RE: H.B. 2718 Would Penalize Women on TANF for Having Children Unless They Are Survivors of “Legitimate” Rape
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...
Women have the power – why aren't more of them using it?
Co-chairs of WomenVote PA, Carol Tracy, Executive Director of the Women's Law Project, and Kate Michelman, President Emeritus of NARAL Pro-Choice America AT A RECENT meeting a colleague of ours presented us with a challenge and posed the following questions: Imagine...
