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Women's Law Project

@womenslawproject.bsky.social

WLP is a public interest legal organization devoted to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ equality, and gender justice in Pennsylvania and beyond. Sign up--> https://shorturl.at/aG6iM

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · last wk.

"That is how a commonwealth that never banned anything ends up with bans in it. Which is why a letter asking for clarification is not a small thing." phillygaycalendar.com/2026/09/18/p...

Pennsylvania Never Banned Trans Athletes. Twelve Groups Want the PIAA to Say So Out Loud. | PhillyGayCalendar

Twelve Pennsylvania organizations wrote to the PIAA on September 1 asking it to state plainly that state law still protects transgender student athletes. Pennsylvania never passed a ban - but the asso...

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · last mo.

"The court recognizes that the right to reproductive autonomy is the right to self-determination,” declared Susan J. Frietsche, executive director of the Women’s Law Project msmagazine.com/2026/08/25/e...

After Dobbs, the ERA Offers a New Path to Abortion Rights

For 250 years, women have been fighting for inclusion in the nation’s founding promise of equality. The Equal Rights Amendment would finally guarantee that equality under the U.S. Constitution—and cou...

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · last mo.

"The law undermines the sacred doctor-patient relationship and can push young people further away from safe, timely medical care." coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/08/laws...

Lawsuit Challenging Parental Notification for Abortion Will Proceed

A state court on Monday allowed the legal challenge to Colorado’s parental notification law to proceed. Colorado law currently withholds abortion care from young people for at least 48 hours...

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I do feel confident at this point [that the center] is going to move in a good direction from here.” - Lila Slovak, WLP Philadelphia Office Director share.inquirer.com/20kiJV

Inside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam center

For more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I do feel confident at this point [that the center] is going to move in a good direction from here.” - Lila Slovak, WLP Philadelphia Office Director share.inquirer.com/20kiJV

Inside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam center

For more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“This court has held the coverage exclusion cannot be enforced without violating [constitutional] rights. Thus, continued enforcement of the coverage exclusion irreparably injures providers and their prospective patients as a matter of our most fundamental law.” ⚖️🔥

Medicaid coverage of abortion begins in Pennsylvania amid ongoing lawsuit

A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the state’s Medicaid program to begin covering abortions while a constitutional challenge plays out before the state Supreme Court.

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Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗

Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version

The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

[Gift article] City Council hearings focused Philadelphia police actions at Philly Pride will likely be held in the fall. share.inquirer.com/exnIQM

Philly City Council will hold hearings to investigate police response during Pride celebration in the Gayborhood

“It’s clear that this was a lack of communication, a lack of planning, and a lack of clear on-the-ground decision making of what to do in this situation,” said Councilmember Rue Landau.

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Women's Law Project@womenslawproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

[Gift link] "The AG has chosen to waste taxpayer dollars on trying to take reproductive rights away from Pennsylvanians. We are confident in our case and look forward to once again arguing that reproductive choice belongs to the people, not the government.” - WLP ED Sue Frietsche

Attorney General Sunday appeals Pennsylvania court ruling that recognized abortion access as a right

The appeals sets up another clash in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over the right to reproductive autonomy, and the constitutionality of a ban on public funding for abortion through Medicaid.

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