UW Birth Control Ban (AB 343) Officially Introduced in the State Assembly

[rodeodance]

good grief-what next!!
pass this to everyone you know.
I got it as an email a bit ago




Original Message --------
Subject: Update on the UW Birth Control Ban!
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:58:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin <[e-mail]>



UW Birth Control Ban (AB 343) Officially Introduced in the State Assembly

The UW Birth Control Ban has now been officially introduced in the State Assembly! To follow the progress of this bill, check our website frequently!

Be Sure to Thank the Attorney General for Standing Against the Birth Control Ban!

As we highlighted in this month's issue of our e-newsletter, the proposed Birth Control Ban would prohibit health care providers at University of Wisconsin health centers from prescribing, dispensing, or even advertising birth control, including emergency contraception for rape victims.

Because the bill fails to clearly distinguish between daily birth control pills and emergency contraception, it infringes upon women's fundamental right to access birth control. By denying women access to ordinary birth control, this bill could increase unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion.

Additionally, the bill discriminates against women by subjecting them to a sub-standard level of care, and interferes with the patient-doctor relationship.

Take action today to thank Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager for speaking out against this unconstitutional bill!




Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Thank you for speaking out against the Birth Control Ban!

Dear ,

As a pro-choice voter, I thank you so much for standing up for women's health once again. Your statement against Rep. LeMahieu's proposed Birth Control Ban, which would prevent UWS from dispensing hormonal contraceptives to female students, was exactly what the pro-choice majority of Wisconsin needed to hear!

Your letter highlights the clear reasons why the Birth Control Ban is bad for Wisconsin women - not only because of the vague language used, but also because of the discriminatory nature of this legislation.

Although the majority of Wisconsinites believe that women should have access to basic health care, including hormonal birth control pills and emergency contraception, we continue to see an assault on this right by elected officials in the Wisconsin State Legislature.

Thank you for once again standing up for Wisconsin women.

Sincerely,
xxxx




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[rodeodance]

1. pretty soon WI will be red state the way things are going!!

[rkc3]

2. I don't care what the ban says -

as long as they continue to provide Viagra for middle-aged professors.

[sybylla]

3. This is a really sad bit of pandering to the fundies

I would like to think it will backfire all the way to elections in 2006.

I am relatively confident Doyle will veto this and the Dems will for once stand as a group against this. But I could be dreaming.

[TheFarseer]

4. Republicans wanted to go back to 1950

Now that's not enough, they want to go back to 1850 and have 9 kid per family all reaised to believe in their perverted concept of "family values" 4 kids to be in the Army, 4 to work at Walmart, and 1 to be a minister. Good grief, I'm telling you, people aren't going to stand for this. You've got to be REAL hardcore to not believe in birth control. They've giving us issues for 2006 left and right.

[HockeyMom]

6. Freeper site

Been on one of those. Apart from the real hard core christian fundies, even the Feepers don't like these bans on plain old birth control pills. In the case of the pharmacists, many were even saying they should be fired. Could it be that these religious wackos have gone to far with this? I think they will awaken a sleeping giant if all these birth control bans spread.

[TheFarseer]

9. No doubt about it

Liberals and conservatives, married and unmarried, monogamous and unmonogamous people want to have sex without the woman being bare-foot and pregnant every year. Something like this will actually impact THEIR life and not in a good way. It's alot like you could care less about a war in Iraq until your kid gets drafted and paralyzed in a firefight in Fallujah. They're waltzing through a minefield with crap like this and it's going to blow up in their face.

[China_cat]

5. You must be wrong

I've been told here in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely NO movement to ban birth control and I am a liar when I say there is.

:sarcasm:

[HockeyMom]

7. Pill is abortion

to many of these people. Anything that might prevent a fertilized egg from implanting is abortion to them. They disagree with science (once again) that pregnancy is when implantation occurs. They say it is fertilization, so the Pill MIGHT stop implantation and for them that is the same as abortion.

Scary.

[smoogatz]

8. WTF??? Are you KIDDING me?

What possible rationale could the authors of this bill have, other than their religious belief that birth control is evil? Since when is the state allowed to intervene in the private healthcare decisions made by ADULTS in consultation with their doctors? Who are the idiots responsible for this moronic bill?

[sybylla]

10. Apparently Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg is the author.

Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, is a co-sponsor and will introduce his own version of the bill into the state senate.

http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/news/archive/local_20623873.shtml
Bills aim to control birth control
By Janet Ortegon
Sheboygan Press Staff

Nurse Trudy Moser worries that women’s health will suffer if bills from two Sheboygan County legislators, restricting access to contraceptives in Wisconsin, pass.

“It’s not all about abortion,” said Moser, interim administrator of Sheboygan’s Planned Parenthood Clinic. “It’s not all about birth control.”

For Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, it’s about responsibility.

“I think we can send a better message to college-age students — you can act responsibly, you can make good decisions,” LeMahieu said. “Then you don’t need the morning-after pill.”
<SNIP>

[Warpy]

11. Call it the PRO ABORTION LAW

because it will cause a lot more abortions! Tell those dumbfucks that they're NEVER going to stop young women from having sex, they'll only stop SAFE sex.

Assholes just can't think ANYTHING through.