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WLP’s Terry L. Fromson Honored as a Woman of the Year
The Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for Women honored WLP’s Managing Attorney Terry L. Fromson alongside honorees Raquel Evita Saraswati of Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs and Jasmine Sessoms, CEO and founder of She Can Run. WLP...
Tonight at 10PM EST: Watch PBS Frontline’s “The Abortion Divide”
Tonight at 10PM, a new documentary focused on abortion in Pennsylvania will broadcast live on PBS and online here. The Women’s Law Project appears in the film. Last year, the producers traveled to our office in Philadelphia to interview Executive Director Carol E....
Do you have any plans for 2068? That’s when we expect equal pay.
We’re at the Capitol in Harrisburg today calling on the state legislature to pass bills that would fix Pennsylvania’s broken equal pay law. While gender and race wage gaps persist across the country, Pennsylvania women are worse off than the national average. Without...
Vote for WLP’s Panels at Netroots Nation 2019!
Did you hear? Netroots Nation, the country’s biggest annual progressive conference for organizers, grassroots activists and independent media makers, is coming to Philadelphia this summer, July 11 – 13. The panels, trainings, and screenings at Netroots should reflect...
2019 Update: Does Your Local Hospital Refuse to Provide Emergency Contraception to Rape Victims?
In the event of an emergency such as a sexual assault, it’s important that you know which hospitals refuse to provide comprehensive evidence-based healthcare. As Catholic hospitals expand their presence through mergers—one in six patients are now treated in a Catholic...
