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Talking with an Abortion Provider Counselor about Her Typical Day
Today is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! Have you thanked an abortion provider yet? We appreciate the work of abortion providers—we mean physicians of course, but all kinds of staff that work at healthcare facilities that provide abortion care identify as abortion...
WLP Files Brief in Title IX Case Arguing Dating Violence is a Form of Sex-Based Harassment
Attorneys at the Women’s Law Project and Public Justice filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a Title IX case called Hall v. Millersville University. Our brief supporting Hall argues that an...
On International Women’s Day, Calling Out Pennsylvania’s Shameful Neglect of Pregnant People
On International Women’s Day, the Women’s Law Project proudly joined the bipartisan bicameral Women’s Health Caucus of the Pennsylvania General Assembly this afternoon as they announced an evidence-based legislative agenda to protect and expand the rights, health, and...
WLP Urges Philadelphia City Council to Adopt Public Health Emergency Leave
The City of Philadelphia is easing COVID-19 restrictions even though its Public Health Emergency Leave expired at the end of last year. That means our frontline workers, disproportionately Black people and people of color, have been left without protection from...
Passage of The Equality Act in the U.S. House Highlights Need for LGBTQ+ Protections in PA
As a public interest legal organization devoted to gender justice, we applaud the passage of The Equality Act in the U.S. House. The legislation heads to the U.S. Senate next. If passed into law, The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights laws, including the...
