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Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
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The union representing workers at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania say management is dragging its feet in contract negotiations at a time when employees are being pushed to their limits.
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Pittsburgh-area clinics that perform abortions have seen demand for services skyrocket since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
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An open letter signed by some 1,200 UPMC employees calls on leadership of the state's largest hospital system to do more to protect access to abortion
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Council heard from legal experts Wednesday about a package of bills that would shield abortion providers and patients from prosecution within city limits.
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Gov. Tom Wolf is following in the footsteps of other Democratic governors following the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling and looking to protect patients who travel to Pennsylvania for the procedure from being prosecuted by their home states.
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Getting an abortion is often difficult as it can require travel, finding childcare and taking off work. That in combination with the strain out-of-state patients are placing on area abortion providers, means that access is even more restricted. Those that stand to lose the most access are Black patients and others from marginalized backgrounds.
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The practical effect of the amendment will be that if in the future, a Republican legislature and governor pass a law restricting abortion in some way, abortion-rights advocates won’t be able to challenge the law in state courts.
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Republican state senators are advancing a proposal to add language to the Pennsylvania Constitution stating explicitly that the document does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has emboldened abortion foes to consider tactics that seemed remote possibilities only a few years ago. Among them: a federal abortion ban proposed by western Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly.