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Current Threats & How to Help Protect Abortion Access in Pennsylvania Right Now
The short version: The General Assembly has been in a state of chaos and it has been difficult to follow what’s going on, so we have provided a detailed overview of the constitutional amendments threatening abortion access in Pennsylvania. The short version is that we...
Our Policy Priorities for 2023
A new two-year legislative session just kicked off in Harrisburg! We’re preparing to fight more brute power grabs—like last session’s notorious midnight raid on our rights—while working to defend and expand abortion access, fight for LGBTQ+ equality, protect...
Message from Maggie: Why We Defend Buffer Zones
Over the past forty-five years, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) has documented more than one million acts of anti-abortion violence, harassment, and disruption, including 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 42 bombings, 196 arsons, 491 incidents of assault and...
A Message from Tara: Why We Do CPC Accountability Work
It’s been a big year for our crisis pregnancy center (CPC) accountability work. As co-author of Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States and a follow-up brief outlining how CPCs are poised to function as anti-abortion...
Today is Latina Equal Pay Day
Today is equal pay day for Latinas. Last week was equal pay day for Native American women. And equal pay day for Black women was before that, in September. You may be wondering why there are so many equal pay days. The answer is that the gender wage gap only...
