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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...
Shame on Pennsylvania, the Only Northeast State Without LGBTQ+ Protections
It’s 2021, and Pennsylvania is now the only state in the entire Northeast corridor where LGBTQ+ people still don’t have equality. Twenty-two states across the country, including the rest of the northeast, have implemented statewide anti-discrimination protections. We...
Action Alert: Speak Out about THREE Abortion Restrictions in PA This Week
Amid a well-documented maternal mortality crisis and pandemic, chair of the Pennsylvania House Health Committee Rep. Kathy Rapp is prioritizing legislation that medical experts say would increase maternal mortality. On Tuesday, May 24, the Pennsylvania House Health...
