The proposed amendment would protect a person’s right to choose or refuse an abortion, contraception, or fertility care.
Nationally, there are over 2,600 crisis pregnancy centers, with close to 160 located in Pennsylvania. More than 75% of these centers are linked to religious, anti-abortion networks.
Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity, running against Gov. Josh Shapiro, campaigned with an anti-abortion governor on Sunday.
“I find it difficult to trust doctors and I worry about not being heard, not being believed.”
The suit centers on a provision of the recently-passed mega bill , which enacts many of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy priorities.
“I just wish our leaders would see us—not as numbers, but as people with families, with dreams, with real health needs. Losing Medicaid isn’t just a policy change. For some of us, it’s everything.”
A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.
With employer-provided insurance no longer required to cover birth control, many in Pennsylvania are struggling to pay for necessary medical care. The Contraceptive Access for All Act aims to change that.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.
In Pennsylvania, about one in every five women of reproductive age is enrolled in Medicaid. Dozens of family planning clinics throughout the state could lose their Medicaid funding if Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passes, leaving thousands of women without reproductive health care options.
