Wisconsin bill targets the 'morning-after' pill

[question everything]

Wisconsin bill targets the 'morning-after' pill

Jill Burcum
Star Tribune
Published July 8, 2005

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But a bill moving through Wisconsin's Legislature could prohibit student health service workers at the state's 26 college campuses from giving that counseling -- or prescribing emergency contraception.

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Forty years after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidated state bans on contraception, Wisconsin could become the first state to limit college students' access to morning-after birth-control pills.

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The legislation, which has been approved by the Wisconsin House and appears headed for passage in the state Senate, is being closely monitored by both sides of the abortion debate across the nation. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is vowing to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.

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"This is just basic, basic female health care, and it's extremely disturbing ... that women's health is under attack here and at the national level," said Tanya Atkinson, field manager for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. Wisconsin legislators also are considering a bill that would let pharmacists decline to fill prescriptions for birth-control pills on moral grounds. Some pharmacists around the country are objecting to giving women morning-after pills.

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reflecting the consensus of the medical profession, does not consider the drug an abortion pill because it believes pregnancy does not begin until a fertilized egg implants in the lining of the uterus.

So far, Virginia is the only other state that has considered a campus health service ban on the morning-after pill, said the bill's author, Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, a Presbyterian publisher from southeast Wisconsin. That measure did not become law in Virginia, according to organizations that track legislatures.

The bill is not intended to pave the way for all birth control to be banned in Wisconsin, said LeMahieu, who added that he realizes that most people in the state support its use. Instead, he said, the bill is an attempt to rein in university health services. "I just don't think the university should be providing this type of medication," said LeMahieu, who introduced the bill after University of Wisconsin-Madison student health services ran an advertisement promoting the medication as part of students' spring break preparations.

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Jill Burcum is at [e-mail].

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5496055.html

[applegrove]

1. So there will be more abortions as a result. Pretty! n/t

[fujiyama]

9. Exactly

Shows how shortsighted and stupid these conservatives really are.

[applegrove]

10. And really - if that Seattle serial killer (1980s)'s mom had realized

she had been with a snake over the weekend like she probably did right away - what a benefit to society a morning after pill would have been to all society. Ted Bundy. That is the name.

Facts are the sociopaths are genetically wired to get in and out of a relationship really quick (spread their seed wide rather than invest in children). And sociopathy is inherited - I think something like 50% chance to inherit some of the issues.

So I mean really - all those women lining up at the pharmacy and saying to themselves "what the hell was that - why did I do that - how come I didn't use protection" and getting the morning after pill is a good thing.

I hate to be crass - but it is true. How often are the serial killers we know from broken homes where the mother was left to raise a child from a very short relationship.

The morning after pill is treatment for rape too.

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Thank god for Jim Doyle, he'll veto that ridiculous bill

[shoelace414]

3. We are just a democratic Governor away from being

freeper central. even tho we went for Kerry in 2004.

[jmaier]

4. Well, I don't know about the lay of the land in WI

but what stops Democrats from winning state legislative seats?

Frankly, it seems to me in state after state, Republicans simply care more about winning these seats. A great platform for growing future national candidates and a nice way of pushing the RW side via state laws. Should we get a precedent overturning SCOTUS, liberals are going to be way behind the eight-ball since we seem to be forfeiting the state side of the fight (aside from governorships). Scary.

[shoelace414]

8. I'm not sure actally..

I'll assume it's Gerrymandering, but I don't really know.. the publicans are like 5 votes shy of veto proof majority in the assembly.

[ailsagirl]

5. Won't the pharmaceutical companies have something to say

about this?? You know they make mega bucks on birth control products...

[question everything]

6. Just like parental notification

the bill has a limited scope - state schools and university

The good ol' "for the children"

[shoelace414]

7. children.. college students.. not children anymore

It just frustrates me so.