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.
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.
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.
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.
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that 30% of these anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’ promote "abortion pill reversal," a treatment that’s not backed by science and does not meet clinical standards.
Abortion access continues to remain legal in Pennsylvania even though Donald Trump won the election. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union are preparing to defend reproductive rights in a second Trump term.
‘Libby’ shares how trauma shaped her advocacy for women to have control over their own bodies—and how ‘family values’ politicians are way off the mark.
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
“Pennsylvania is going to be the difference between a national abortion ban or the opportunity to enact federal legislation to restore reproductive freedom in this country,” says CEO and President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund Alexis McGill Johnson in reference to the state’s election outcome.
