Bloodless Coup

Only Forty Years?*

Testing the limits, probing the defenses, practicing, see how far you can go...it's happening, this time in Wisconsin. For all the complacent who think that surely those who are interested in "protecting the children" from abortion will do all they can do make sure unwanted pregnancies don't happen, to make sure access to birth control is protected, well, WAKE THE FUCK UP ALREADY.

It's taken a while for the story to get out, and it does look like the governor will not let this by, but this is a very telling bill. Protecting children? More like "punishing sluts," or at least trying to scare the hell out of them so they conform to the puritanical standards. It's not acid thrown at the one without a burqua, but it's a threat to women who dare tread on ground that is fine for men. Birth control encourages promiscuity. Right. That's why our species was in danger of dying out before they invented the pill.

Just so we're clear, no morning after pill, which is really just taking a bunch of your regular birth control pills in a different order over a shorter period of time. No giving a prescription, or referring you to someplace that can (even though it appears the University Hospital is exempted from the gag). Some interpretations suggest that this could do away will regular pill prescriptions which would largely preclude the need for emergency contraception, which is more likely to be a problem with barrier (condom) or "rhythm" (not interrupted in time). This bill makes no allowance for rape. This bill would prohibit doctors from prescribing medicine to adult patients, who have paid for health care via fees.

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2005 ASSEMBLY BILL 343

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AN ACT to create 36.11 (49) of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from advertising the availability of, prescribing, and dispensing certain hormonal medication or combination of medications and prohibiting persons from advertising, prescribing, or dispensing the medication or combination of medications on University of Wisconsin System property.

This bill prohibits a person employed by or under contract with the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) to provide health care services to registered students from dispensing or prescribing a hormonal medication or combination of medications that is administered only after sexual intercourse for the postcoital control of fertility to a registered student or to any other person entitled to receive university health care services or from advertising the availability of the hormonal medication or combination of medications. The bill also prohibits a person from advertising, dispensing, or prescribing the hormonal medication or combination of medications on UWS property, except for the property leased to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.

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The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. 36.11 (49) of the statutes is created to read: 36.11 (49) ADVERTISING, PRESCRIBING, AND DISPENSING OF CERTAIN HORMONAL MEDICATION PROHIBITED.

No person whom the board employs or with whom the board contracts to provide health care services to students registered in the system may advertise the availability of, transmit a prescription order for, or dispense a hormonal medication or combination of medications that is administered only after sexual intercourse for the postcoital control of fertility to a registered student or to any other person entitled to receive university health care services. (c) In addition to the prohibition under par. (b), no person may advertise, prescribe, or dispense a hormonal medication or combination of medications that is administered only after sexual intercourse for the postcoital control of fertility on system property, except for property leased under s. 233.04 (7).

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Posted by binky at August 1, 2005 11:17 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics