Wisconsin Spotlights Rollback of Women's Rights

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Wisconsin Spotlights Rollback of Women's Rights
By Christine J. Martell
WeNews correspondent
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Gov. Scott Walker's re-election will certainly be scrutinized to determine if his policies impacting women--from closing Planned Parenthood clinics to repealing the state's pay equity law--are a harbinger of national social change.

MADISON, Wisc. (WOMENSENEWS)--For advocates of women's rights in Wisconsin, Republican incumbent Scott Walker's narrow win over Democrat Mary Burke in last week's gubernatorial race means the bad news will only get worse.

The same governor who has restricted women's access to abortion in the state also supports a constitutional amendment backed by Pro-Life Wisconsin to grant "personhood" and legal rights to a fertilized egg, making abortion illegal without exceptions and banning common forms of birth control, embryonic stem cell research and in-vitro fertilization

Walker may be best known for union-busting tactics that led to massive protests and a recall election in 2012.

But his first term was also marked by rollbacks to women's access to health care and the 2012 repeal of Wisconsin's Pay Equity law. The repeal makes it more difficult for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court....

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1. Next up: Women's suffrage.

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2. Let's not forget

Women voted for him too!

Based on the last election there are women who don't want fair pay laws, equal rights, or even the ability to decide for themselves what to do with their own bodies!

Now, perhaps we can have someone introduce legislation that will remove all rights for these particular women...I know the right to vote thing might be a little tricky to get around...but it's workable!

If these women don't want these rights, why not take them away.