| Anti-Choice Watch
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 Anti-choice extremists are working to take away our personal private medical decisions regarding our health, including not only abortion, but birth control, reproductive health care and sex education!
Politicians should not be telling doctors what medical procedures they can use to help save women's lives and protect their health. Women and their doctors should make that decision.
90% of Wisconsin voters support efforts to increase access to birth control, cervical cancer testing and reproductive health care. Yet here is what anti-choice legislators and organizations say about women's health...
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 | Representative Jim Ott (R-Mequon)
"The health of the mother is not an issue."
public testimony on the Abortion Procedures Ban bill |
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| Representative Mark Gundrum (R-New Berlin)
"It's about freedom of religion and not making hospitals that don't believe in birth control hand it out...Beside the Plan B pill and other day-after contraceptives are available over the counter, so if rape victims really want them they can go to a pharmacy and get them."
when asked why he introduced an amendment to the Compassionate Care for Rape Victims bill |
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| Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend)
"Planned Parenthood, really I feel, is almost the most evil organization in our country right now." |
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| Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin
"…if we oppose contraception because of the mentality of treating the child as an accident, it would apply to everyone, it's not gender-based. Like I said, we would oppose barrier methods as well, okay, a condom."
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the availability of confidential ‘family planning’ services to teens is encouraging sexual promiscuity and with it a host of social pathologies." |
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| Representative Daniel LeMahieu (R-Oostburg)
"I am outraged that our public institutions are giving young college women the tools for having promiscuous sexual relations...."
on UW-Madison students' access to emergency contraception |
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| Representative Sheryl Albers (R-Reedsburg)
"Birth control for personal convenience is not medically necessary. We do not mandate coverage for massages, health spas, exercise programs, aspirin for minor headaches, or acupuncture--even though each makes our lives more comfortable and provides health benefits. As a society, we recognize these items as personal conveniences that each individual chooses to take advantage of or forego."
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