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What now?

by | Nov 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Women's Law Project

First, abortion is legal and accessible in Pennsylvania. No laws have changed or will change in Pennsylvania in the immediate future. About the election results, we are right here with you. It is unfathomable for so many reasons. We won’t sugarcoat it – our mission of...

Dear Politicians: Bullying Trans Kids is Not a Game

by Tara Murtha | Aug 4, 2021 | LGBTQ Rights, Title IX, Uncategorized

Back in April, five Pennsylvania state lawmakers announced they’d sponsor anti-trans legislation targeting gender-diverse teen and child student athletes. Pennsylvania House Bill 972 has been misleadingly dubbed “Fairness in Women’s Sports” legislation by...

Reproductive Rights in Pennsylvania at #Roe48

by Tara Murtha | Jan 22, 2021 | 2021, Roe, Uncategorized

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the day the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in the landmark case Roe V. Wade. If you’ve never listened to the arguments, you can do that here. Forty-eight years after Roe, reproductive...

Fighting for Justice for Military Sexual Assault Survivors at the U.S. Supreme Court

by Tara Murtha | Dec 4, 2020 | Sexual Assault, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncategorized

We must protect our nation’s defenders. Sexual assault is rampant in the U.S. military and service-member survivors of sexual violence have virtually no judicial recourse. This doesn’t have to be the case. The unconscionable, perpetual injustice experienced by...

WLP Opposes Defense Tactic of Introducing Rape Victims’ Convictions for Prostitution

by Tara Murtha | Jul 30, 2020 | Amicus Brief, Rape, Uncategorized

Attorneys at the Women’s Law Project, in partnership with AEquitas, authored and filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of 26 additional organizations devoted to improving judicial and societal responses to...

WLP’s Analysis of the New Title IX Rules

by Tara Murtha | May 27, 2020 | Title IX, Uncategorized

The U.S. Department of Education recently released its long-awaited final regulations governing campus sexual assault under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded institutions. We strongly oppose the new rules. Title IX is a federal...