Wisconsin bans providing birth control on U. Wisc. campuses.
Wisconsin has passed a bill entitled UW Birth Control Ban-AB 343. This bill prohibits University of Wisconsin campuses from prescribing, dispensing and advertising all forms of birth control and emergency contraceptives. Wisconsin State Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, introduced this bill based on the belief that “dispensing birth control and emergency contraceptives leads to promiscuity.”
Get date-raped? Tough luck. A consenting adult who wants to safely
hook up with your equally consenting and adult partner? No dice. Have
hormone problems that could be helped with the Pill? Go find a doctor
in town, if you're lucky. Oops, you don't have a car, do you? Well,
there's no law that says we have to help you! You have no right to have
sex!
So deeply depressing. As someone who hit my teens in the 80s and
attended college in the late 80s/early 90s, I have memories of a time
when this kind of thing would have been laughable. Unbelievable.
