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Dear Politicians: Bullying Trans Kids is Not a Game
Back in April, five Pennsylvania state lawmakers announced they’d sponsor anti-trans legislation targeting gender-diverse teen and child student athletes. Pennsylvania House Bill 972 has been misleadingly dubbed “Fairness in Women’s Sports” legislation by...
The Goal: End Discrimination On and Off the Field
“I feel like it’s actually everybody’s responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world and to try to make our society better, whether you’re an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it’s everybody’s...
Fighting Anti-Abortion Extremism
Attorneys at the Women’s Law Project have authored an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in a case of anti-abortion extremism, Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Troy Newman. The brief was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
How We Are Failing Pregnant Pennsylvanians
As public interest lawyers, we represent pregnant and parenting people who face systemic barriers to maintaining healthy pregnancies and raising healthy and safe children. This phase of life can be challenging for anyone, but is especially difficult for low-income...
Pennsylvania Took $1 Million from Poor Children to Double-Fund Anti-Abortion Activists
In the wake of a pandemic that drove children, in particular, deeper into poverty, Pennsylvania stripped safety-net money away from poor children to gave it to anti-abortion activists. The Commonwealth has so much federal aid surplus that they stashed billions of...
