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Family Caps are Still Considered Birth Control in Pennsylvania
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff The U.S. Census Bureau’s new report on family income reveals that 14.5 percent of all Americans, 45.3 million people, live in poverty. That’s two percentage points higher than 2007, before the recession. Pennsylvania is no exception. In 2011,...
Doctors Aren't Dummies: Support the Patient Trust Act
By Kate Michelman, WomenVote PA and Susan Frietsche, WLP Senior Staff Attorney Doctors aren't dummies. They don't need politicians to tell them what they can and can't say to patients, or how to administer tests and treatments. On September 8, the House Democratic...
AllAboveAll
By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff This week, we saw a glimpse of the tragic consequences of the misguided effort to “end abortion” by forcing healthcare clinics that provide abortion services to shut down. A 39-year-old mother in Montour County—the smallest county in...
“The progress has stalled:” WLP Managing Attorney Terry Fromson testified about Equal Pay in Pennsylvania
By Tara Murtha “Gender-based wage discrimination is unfortunately alive and persistent in Pennsylvania,” Terry Fromson, Managing Attorney of Women’s Law Project, testified in front of the House Democratic Policy Committee in Philadelphia yesterday. “Although...
Let's Leave Politics Behind for the Sake of Healthcare
By Kate Michelman and Carol E. Tracy Pennsylvania is facing a 1.3 billion deficit and the annual state budget is due June 30. The obvious solution is to expand Medicaid, but some Pennsylvania legislators won't consider it. When Governor Corbett rejected expanding...
