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Wisconsin GOP wants to ban emergency contraception, including bans for use by rape victims, for condom failure and other emergencies at State universities:
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on state college campuses, a restriction that would be the first in the nation if approved. The vote in the lower chamber late Thursday sends the bill to the state Senate; both are controlled by Republicans. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle said he will veto the measure if it reaches his desk.
... Democrats said the bill would deny rape victims a chance to stop pregnancies and predicted it would lead to more unwanted pregnancies and surgical abortions.
Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider called the measure "a direct frontal assault on the right to privacy, on the right of free speech, on the right of a free press."
"Apparently some in this body want to take us back to the time when the dispensing of contraception was a criminal act," Schneider said.
... The Assembly vote made Wisconsin the first state to seriously consider banning emergency contraception on college campuses, said Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state legislation at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that supports abortion rights. Bills in Virginia have died in the past two years.
The Extreme Republican Party. The Party of Dobson.
Update [2005-6-17 14:27:28 by Armando]:Hat tip to this diarist.