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.
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…
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