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[eirias]

Short story: Our state Assembly wishes to ban health care providers at UW from "prescribing, dispensing, or advertising birth control to adult female students, including emergency contraception to rape victims."

cpaline already posted this, but I have a number of non-UW friends who will also find this annoying, so I thought I'd share the love.


Stop the UW Birth Control Ban!

The UW Birth Control Ban, Assembly Bill 343, would ban health care providers at all University of Wisconsin campuses and on all UW property from prescribing, dispensing or advertising birth control to adult female students, including emergency contraception to rape victims.

UW Birth Control Ban Unconstitutional
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager has declared that the UW Birth Control Ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory. Attorney General Lautenschlager stated that the UW Birth Control Ban, proposed by Rep. Daniel LeMahieu (R-Oostburg), would "violate several provisions of the United States and Wisconsin Constitutions."

Lautenschlager cited several violations within AB 343, including the constitutional right to privacy, the Equal Protection Clause that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, and the right to free speech. The UW Birth Control Ban is contrary to 40 years of Supreme Court case law and is not only discriminatory, but runs counter to the state's interest in promoting access to health care.

Take Action! Thank Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager
Send a letter to Attorney General Lautenschlager thanking her for supporting access to basic health care for all UW students. Click here to send your letter.

Take Action! Sign the Petition Opposing the UW Birth Control Ban
It's Outrageous! Rep. LeMahieu has stated that this bill is needed because access to birth control, including emergency contraception, encourages women to be promiscuous. Click here to sign the petition.

Comments

[trygve.livejournal.com]

Now I'm curious, but I'll be nice and not get you started. =)

[feuervogel]

If you go to their website, you'll see that it's full of propaganda and just false information, which makes the rest of us pharmacists look bad, which pisses me off. Of course, the Economist had an article that something like half of pharmacists they surveyed didn't know how EC works. Oh. Em. Gee.

Karen Brauer, the head of PFLI, says that pharmacists should have the right to refuse to fill BCPs because "they don't want to contribute to sin." JFC. If they can refuse BCPs, what about HIV meds? And can I refuse to fill fertility treatments since I have serious issues with that?

These eejits do not represent the majority of pharmacists, but they act like they do. Sort of like the Pat Robertson crowd pretending to speak for all Christians.

[eldan.livejournal.com]

is it just me, or is Karen Brauer also the tail and body of PFLI? She's the only person I've ever seen quoted as a representative of that organisation.