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Press Release: Pennsylvania-based “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” are Promoting Unethical Medical Experimentation on Pregnant People
40% of Pennsylvania-based CPCs Promote Renegade Practice Known as “Abortion Pill Reversal” (PENNSYLVANIA, September 15, 2020) – A recent review shows that forty percent of “crisis pregnancy centers” based in Pennsylvania promote an unethical experimental practice on...
Essential workers have cared for us. Now let’s care for them.
We are so grateful to essential workers. They’ve helped so many of us through this harrowing time--caring for children, ringing and bringing groceries, and risking their lives to tend to patients in hospitals and nursing homes. If these workers are exposed to the...
WLP Joins Brief Arguing Against LGBTQ+ Discrimination in Adoption
A Philadelphia-based case centered on whether or not taxpayer-funded adoption agencies can legally discriminate against LGBTQ+ people will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 4, 2020. WLP recently joined an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief...
Today: Marching for Black Lives. Listening to Black Voices.
“It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.” Martin Luther King, Jr. said these words while delivering his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Today, exactly 57 years later, tens of...
The Trump/DeVos Title IX Rules Go In Effect Today
Unfortunately, the day is upon us: The new Trump/DeVos Title IX rules go into effect Friday, August 14, 2020. Colleges and universities across the nation are now required to comply with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' changes to Title IX, a 1972 law...
