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Tag Archives: Women’s health
What You Need to Know about Trump’s Attack on Title X
The Title X Family Planning Program was established by President Richard Nixon in 1970 in order to help alleviate poverty and improve the health of women and children. It fulfilled Nixon’s promise that “no American woman should be denied access to family planning … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cancer screenings, Contraception, healthcare, independent clinics, Planned Parenthood, STI screenings, Title X, Women's health
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Media Advisory: “Pennsylvania Community Conversations on Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Women’s Health” Kicks Off in Erie, PA
Pennsylvania Campaign for Women’s Health Launches Statewide Series of Public Conversations about Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Women’s Health Pennsylvania – A statewide series of public conversations about a broad range of women’s health issues kicks off this week with an inaugural … Continue reading
Posted in Community Conversations
Tagged Community Conversations, infant mortality, Keystone Progress, Maternal mortality, Planned Parenthood, Pregnancy, Reproductive justice, Reproductive Rights, Women's health, Women's Law Project
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Urgent Action Alert: The AHCA is Catastrophic for Women’s Health #ProtectOurCare
The U.S. House will vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) this afternoon. The AHCA is the makeshift pseudo-replacement for the Affordable Care Act. In fact, it is not really a healthcare plan at all as much as it … Continue reading
Posted in Action Alert
Tagged AHCA, Health insurance, Pennsylvania, Planned Parenthood, Women's health
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Open Letter to Pennsylvania Senate Leadership re: HB 1948
Dear Senators Scarnati, Corman, Costa, Greenleaf and Leach, The Women’s Law Project is a public interest legal organization that has represented abortion providers in Pennsylvania since the 1970s. In light of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health … Continue reading
Posted in HB 1948, Uncategorized
Tagged Abortion, abortion bans, HB 1948, HB1948, Pennsylvania, SCOTUS, Women's health
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Action Alert: Say NO to Another Abortion Ban in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawmakers just introduced yet another abortion ban. House Bill 1948 would criminalize almost all abortion by any method after 19 weeks’ gestation, with no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal anomaly. Members of the Health Committee in Pennsylvania House of … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion
Tagged 20-week abortion ban, Abortion ban, HB 1948, unconstitutional, Women's health
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Contraception at the Supreme Court Today: What You Need to Know
Oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell, a case about contraception and the Affordable Care Act, just got underway this morning at the Supreme Court of the United States. The petitioners are non-profit organizations that not only object, on religious grounds, to … Continue reading
Posted in SCOTUS
Tagged Contraception, National Women's Law Center, RFRA, SCOTUS, Women's health, Zubik
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A Road Map for Our New Governor to Improve Women’s Health and Economic Security
By Kate Michelman and Carol E. Tracy Democratic challenger Tom Wolf defied a national tide and 60 years of Pennsylvania history in defeating incumbent Republican governor Tom Corbett on November 4. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. October polls showed 61 … Continue reading
Posted in economic security, Government, Pennsylvania, Women's health, Women's Law Project, WomenVote PA
Tagged Gender Gap, Pennsylvania Govenor, Tom Wolf, Women's health
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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, … Continue reading
Posted in Contraception, Health Care, Health insurance, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, Reproductive Rights, Women's health
Tagged #PA4WomensHealth, abortion access, bad medicine, Contraception, Kate Michelman, PA Agenda for Women's Health, Patient Trust Act, Pennsylvania Legislature, Women's health, Women's Law Project
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Pennsylvania is Failing Women
By Kate Michelman and Sue Frietsche So much for Pennsylvania as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. A report last month from the Center for American Progress offered some alarming statistics about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the way it … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic violence, Economic Justice, economic security, Family Violence, Health Care, Pennsylvania, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Violence Against Women, Voter turnout, women voting, Women's health, Women's Law Project, women's rights, WomenVote PA, working mothers, working women
Tagged Domestic violence, Pennsylvania, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Violence, Women's health, Women's Law Project, Women's rights
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Pennsylvania Women’s Advocacy Leaders Condemn Anti-Obamacare Ad
Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy Call for Immediate Stop to Ad Leaders from women’s rights advocacy group the Women’s Law Project and its action arm WomenVote PA, expressed strong condemnation today about the anti-Obamacare ad from the group Generation Opportunity … Continue reading
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