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Public interest legal center devoted to the defending & advancing the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in Pennsylvania & beyond. Offices in PHL + PGH.
Jul 8, 2022 55 tweets 20 min read
🚨🚨 Details & actions to take soon. This outrageous attack on our rights, against the will of the people, under cover of night, will not be tolerated To be clear: Abortion is still legal in Pennsylvania. The legislation to eliminate our reproductive rights has a ways more to go before it could be implemented

Which means we have to stop it NOW.
Jul 7, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Tech giants, which have in the past mounted intense legal opposition to LE data requests, have been ... mostly silent about what they’ll do in abortion cases.

Whose side are you on @Google @Microsoft @Apple? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… "@google declined to specify if it would fight abortion-related data requests, and didn’t mention the changing legal landscape at all"
Jan 7, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Grateful @Jezebel dug into our report on how the increasingly government-funded CPC industry surveils & tracks pregnant people jezebel.com/crisis-pregnan… The "new research says CPCs have become an even greater threat to the health and safety of pregnant people amid the recent surge in state abortion bans and restrictions — particularly Texas’ #SB8" jezebel.com/crisis-pregnan…
Jan 6, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
"Anti-abortion groups’ use of images of women of color is especially egregious considering that people of color ... are especially harmed by anti-abortion politics" @Jezebel #CPCs #DesignedToDeceive jezebel.com/theres-no-such… As we noted in our CPC report #DesignedtoDeceive, @EmoryRollins researchers found 67% of CPCs prominently place photos of women of color on their website, usually on the homepage alliancestateadvocates.org/wp-content/upl…
Jun 4, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Pennsylvania even diverts TANF, safety-net funds mostly for low-income mothers, *directly into the 6-figure salaries of executives running a chain of state-funded CPCs theguardian.com/world/2021/jun… Real talk: Pennsylvania siphons money away from low-income mothers & pregnant people that need TANF & into the 6-figure salaries of men who promise to help the very same people they stripped of funds campaignforaccountability.org/watchdog-calls…
May 25, 2021 29 tweets 12 min read
🚨In PA, anti-abortion extremists run the Health Committee

📈Maternal mortality is up 21.4% here

😳Today, the House Health Comm is advancing 2 bills experts say would INCREASE maternal mortality Here are details on the cruel & harmful anti-abortion bills that are expected to advance on partisan lines in the PA House Health Comm at 9:30 this morning womenslawproject.org/2021/05/24/act…
May 24, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨 Did you know anti-abortion extremists are running the PA House Health Comm?

On Tues May 25, they're voting on 3 abortion restrictions (instead of doing anything to improve health amid a pandemic & maternal mortality crisis) womenslawproject.org/2021/05/24/act… HB 118 (Rep. Ryan-R) seeks to:
❌Force you to signify all pregnancy loss starting at a fert. egg, miscarriage or abortion, w/ burial or cremation
❌Force you to pay💲for non-compliance
❌Mandate "fetal death certificate" filed w/ the state, can be obtained by "family members"
May 19, 2021 10 tweets 2 min read
We are pleased to share this GOOD NEWS out of the PA Supreme Court with you: PA Rape Shield Law prevents defendants from submitting evidence of a victim's engagement w/ prostitution as evidence of consent womenslawproject.org/2021/05/19/vic… In the case, Commonwealth of PA vs. Eric Rogers, the PA Supreme Court considered an appeal filed by a man convicted of multiple violent sexual assaults against women & children in West Philadelphia in 2011-2012
Dec 5, 2018 20 tweets 9 min read
Tune in to NPR's @1a today at 10AM to hear @CarolTracyWLP discuss @CNN's expose on police destroying rape kits the1a.org/audio/live .@CNN reported that a police dept in Missouri were routinely sending letters telling rape victims they had 10 days to decide if they wanted to prosecute after #Destroyed