Navigating a Post-Roe Pennsylvania: Providers

Policy Committee    August 11, 2022

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11 – Despite the fact that abortion remains legal and safe in Pennsylvania, testifiers explained the health care difficulties and issues now starting to emerge across Pennsylvania as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision during a joint hearing involving the PA House and Senate Democratic Policy committees at Chatham University Thursday. It was the third installment of the joint Democratic Policy Committee's hearings on this topic. 

Host + Testifiers

• Hosts: Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny)
• Testifiers:
  • Dr. Sheila Ramgopal, MD, MA, FACOG, CEO, Allegheny Reproductive Health Center
  • Sydney Etheredge, MPH, President/CEO, Planned Parenthood of Western PA
  • Nicole Molinaro, MA, President/CEO, Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
  • Sue Frietsche, Founder/Director, Western PA Women’s Law Project
  • Dr. Marian Jarlenski, PhD, MPH, Assoc. Professor of Health Policy and Management, Associate Director of the Center for Innovative Research on Gender Health Equity University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
  • La'Tasha D. Mayes, MSPPM, Founder, New Voices for Reproductive Justice

Agenda + Testimony

• Hearing agenda and list of participants: A Post-Roe Pennsylvania

Media Release + News Coverage

• Health care providers detail complications, difficulties in post-Roe PA, August 11, 2022
• Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Western Pa. abortion providers say they are seeing an increase in out-of-state patients post-Dobbs, August 11, 2022

Video + Photos

• Click here to view photos from this hearing
• Click here to view the hearing in its entirety