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November 2, 2021

Enabling advanced practice clinicians in Alaska to provide medication abortion

In a strongly worded opinion, the Superior Court in Alaska granted Legal Voice’s request for a preliminary injunction to enable advanced practice clinicians to provide medication abortion, concluding that: “Planned…

November 1, 2021

Filing amicus briefs in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health demanding meaningful access to abortion

Gender Justice’s brief makes the case that there is no practical difference between a fifteen-week abortion ban and a total abortion ban, and focuses on the barriers clients of abortion…

November 1, 2021

Mobilizing to protect abortion access in response to TX Senate Bill 8

See Gender Justice’s SCOTUS Chat: Texas Abortion Ban Goes to the Supreme Court on Facebook, where Erin Maye Quade and Jess Braverman unpack the arguments at November’s hearing about SB8.…

October 13, 2021

Bringing Medicaid abortion ban case to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

A group of Pennsylvania-based abortion providers represented by attorneys from the Women’s Law Project; law professor David S. Cohen; Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and a private law firm filed…

September 30, 2021

Challenging Idaho’s “Physician’s Only” Law

In December 2018, Legal Voice, along with Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, filed suit against Idaho challenging the law that prohibits qualified advanced practiced clinicians (APC’s) from…

September 23, 2021

Preventing anti-abortion extremists from harassing patients outside of Planned Parenthood

In June of 2020, Legal Voice and the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, filed a complaint on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho against “The Church…

September 22, 2021

Filing amicus briefs demanding meaningful access to abortion for all pregnant people

Legal Voice, on behalf of 13 other organizations, submitted an amicus brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on December 1, 2021.…

September 8, 2021

Changing Minnesota law to protect transgender students

In 2021, Gender Justice won two legal settlements, together totaling more than $500,000, on behalf of transgender students Nick and Matt. The settlements follow a decision from the state Court…

August 30, 2021

Calling for workplace accommodations for pregnant and lactating Pennsylvanians

Pennsylvania’s “pro-life” leadership has blocked Senate Bill 716, which would make it unlawful for an employer to refuse an employee’s request for reasonable accommodation, unless doing so would represent an…

August 4, 2021

Opposing anti-trans legislation targeting student athletes in Pennsylvania

The Women’s Law Project is fighting recently introduced legislation that targets gender-diverse teen and child student athletes in Pennsylvania, sending a letter to members of the Pennsylvania House Education Committee…

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