Nearly 12.4% of women in Pennsylvania lack access to a birthing hospital within a 30-minute drive. The national average is 9.7%.
Pennsylvania State Sen. Amanda Cappelletti is one of six finalists for EMILYs List’s 2025 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award. Cappelletti has advocated for expanding reproductive healthcare after sharing stories about her miscarriages.
Tuesday marked the beginning of negotiations for the upcoming 2025-26 state budget. The Pennsylvania Women’s Health Caucus laid out their priorities for the budget, which include funding for Black maternal health, expanding childcare access and expanding access to menstrual products for lower-income residents.
A bipartisan bill in the state legislature would put in an ‘express lane’ for victims of domestic violence to get their unemployment claims through faster if they are forced to leave a job due to safety concerns.
A new study has found that from May to August 2022, vasectomies surged by 95% and tubal sterilizations increased by 70% among adults ages 19 to 26. Health care professionals across the country have seen this in real time.
Pennsylvania is the 13th state to provide coverage for doula services under Medicaid, enabling residents to have more access to physical and emotional support during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum.
A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that since 2022, states with near-total abortion bans appear to have lost 36,000 people per quarter, with single people, who tend to skew younger, being more likely to leave. Tens of thousands of...
Members of the Pa. Women’s Health Caucus celebrated their legislative victories from the previous session and announced their agenda to protect reproductive rights over the next two years.
The statewide average annual cost of center-based child care in Pennsylvania was $10,710 last year, up about 20% from 2019.
A complaint filed with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office accuses a Scranton-based crisis pregnancy center of misleading women about patient confidentiality on their website.
