Wisconsin -@GovWalker Admin-to stop enforcing birth control law
There are few people that I really despise--Walker is on the top of the list!
http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/wisconsin-stop-enforcing-birth-control-law/13076515/
Wisconsin -Gov Walker Admin-to stop enforcing birth control law http://fondul.ac/1rCqp6C #wipolitics #wiunion
MADISON – Gov. Scott Walker’s administration will no longer enforce the state’s contraception coverage law for employers with religious objections following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month.
The decision riled birth control advocates and Democrats, who said Wednesday that Wisconsin law is not affected by the decision.
The Supreme Court ruled that companies with religious objections, like Hobby Lobby, can avoid the contraceptives requirement of the federal health care overhaul law.
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner’s office spokesman J.P. Wieske said Wednesday that the state had no decision to make because it is federally pre-empted from enforcing the law............
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Walker Administration Unilaterally Ends Enforcement of Wisconsin Birth Control Law
in Latest Effort to Restrict Women’s Access to Essential Health Care
National Women’s Law Center Says Move is in Conflict with Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2014
Contact: Lisa Boyce
608-345-7549
http://www.uppitywis.org/walker-administration-unilaterally-ends-enforcement-wisconsin-bi
MADISON – This week, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) under Governor Walker’s administration announced via a media interview that the state will no longer enforce Wisconsin’s birth control coverage law (Wis stat. 632.895(17)) that ensures prescription drug plans cover birth control the same as other prescription drugs. Governor Walker justified this move in light of the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court in June. Legal experts with the National Women’s Law Center, however, have released an analysis that concludes the Hobby Lobby ruling does not invalidate Wisconsin’s contraceptive coverage law and it must therefore be enforced. The Walker Administration’s move is just the latest in a long line of efforts to reduce women’s access to everything from sex education, cancer screens, and birth control to safe and legal abortion.
“Governor Walker’s latest effort to unilaterally end the enforcement of Wisconsin’s birth control law without legislative action shows just how far he is willing to go to restrict women’s access to essential health care,” stated Tanya Atkinson, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. Since taking office, Governor Walker has initiated and/or signed into law an unprecedented number of laws and policies that compromise women’s health and wellbeing. “Despite the proven benefits of affordable birth control access for women and their employers, and the overwhelming public support for birth control coverage, it’s unbelievable that we are still fighting for access to birth control in 2014.”.......
BACKGROUND
Birth control is basic health care and used by 99 percent of women at some point in their lives, yet before the passage of laws like Wisconsin’s Contraceptive Coverage Law in 2009, many health insurance plans deliberately excluded coverage for contraceptives. Before this inequity was addressed, women of reproductive age were forced to pay as much as 68 percent more for out-of-pocket medical care than men. For each woman supplied with prescription contraceptive coverage over a five-year period, insurance companies save a minimum of $10,000 because of the costs associated with unintended pregnancy (Population Connection, Contraception Equity: What You Need to Know, 6/21/2007).............
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