Wisconsin moved one step closer to being the first state banning EC on college campuses.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
The Republican-controlled Assembly passed, 49-41, a bill that would prohibit University of Wisconsin System health centers from advertising, prescribing or dispensing emergency contraception - drugs that can block a pregnancy in the days after sex. The bill goes to the state Senate.
Democrats said the bill was unconstitutional and, according to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, so vaguely worded it could stop UW pharmacies from dispensing all forms of birth control to thousands of college students.
But isn’t that the point? To criminalize having sex for anything other than birthin’ the babies?
Rep. Daniel LeMahieu (Mr. Birth-Control-Makes-Girls-Whores) started this nonsense after a UW-Madison health clinic ran ads in campus newspapers for emergency contraception.
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Absolutely maddening.
It's the height of irresponsibility to remove birth control from a group of people who are likely to have sex. There can be no claim to any interest in people's health, only a move to force values about sex on people - values which have everything to do with control.
Can we get a commitment from all of the people who voted for this, and their partners, not to use birth control in any form?
I think it's important for young women to know that as long as universities prescribe the pill, they have access to emergency contraception on campus. Planned Parenthood provides instructions for many brands here:
http://plannedparenthood.com/pp2/portal/files/portal/medicalinfo/ec/pub-emergency-contraception.xml#1096745721025::-1995603722390119507
Yeah, this is bull shit.
I actually go to this school, saw the ads, and have been sitting about a mile from the Capitol building where this all went down, so before anyone freaks out, here is the deal.
The governer will not sign this bill, he's already said so. In fact, it probably wont pass in the state senate. It is wingnut masterbation, stroking the pro-life, anti-gay, Christian nut base that exists in a lot of the small WI towns, hoping that it will pay off in warm, sticky, white votes next time they are up for re-election.
Be worried about these freaks, but don't worry for us slutty girls down on the Madison campus. If you want to worry about something serious on campus, worry about how we are the only big 10 school with no domestic partnership benefits, and everyone from the governer to the state congress to the board of regents is saying that we wont be getting them any time soon.
You know, the funny thing is that Ripon is not in the University of Wisconsin system, and would not be affected by the ban anyway. Hopefully some UW schools will borrow the idea. (And I'm sitting a block from the Capitol where it's going down.)