Being pro-choice means empowering individuals to determine their reproductive futures, including maintaining access to services such as IVF here in Pennsylvania.
This proposal is akin to putting PASSHE institutions into a pressure cooker and threatening them to grow or die, write concerned West Chester University faculty members.
March 12 is Women’s Equal Pay Day – and it’s how far into 2024 a woman has to work to earn the same money a man did by the end of 2023 when they both started counting on New Year’s Day 2023.
A Q&A with Haley McEwen about her new book “The US Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa.”
Students who read and talk to each other about stories with social themes report greater motivation to read, greater use of reading strategies, and insight into human nature than those who do not.
“Sometimes, the loudest voices we hear and the strongest voices we hear don’t necessarily reflect the majority,” said Ashley Koning, the poll’s director.
The greater use of stop-and-frisk could lead to a myriad of unwanted consequences, such as lawsuits against the city, greater racial disparities in the criminal justice system, citizen unrest, and distrust of the police.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
For Black people, the modern-day meaning of the word has little to do with school curriculum or political jargon and goes back to the days of Jim Crow and legal, often violent, racial segregation.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition founder Christina Brussalis is tight-lipped about who’s funding the organization, who’s on the board, and whether they are working with the Independence Law Center.
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with the DeGennaro scholarship winners
from the last two years – Natalie Buechel and Dan Kovitz, both from the local band Sour Station who will be playing Saturday.
If the Supreme Court continues to overturn legal precedents on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life.
The 11-bill package includes solar for schools, prevailing wages for green energy, and e-waste recycling.
“Access to health care is inextricably linked to economic mobility, and basic preventative care like birth control should not be a luxury that is only available to some,” said Bucks County State Rep. Tim Brennan.
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