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‘Here we are’: Sexual assault survivors, victim advocates call on Pa. lawmakers to pass budget as funding holdup imperils rape crisis centers

Maria Gardner sat in an exam room at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, having arrived a short time earlier in a police car after being sexually assaulted as she walked along the Allegheny Riverfront Trail during a lunch break in August 2021.  Feeling alone and traumatized by what had just occurred, she didn’t know what would happen […]