Sunday, January 27, 2013
Restrictions on use of drugs to end pregnancies lead to more women having surgical procedures.
The two pregnancy tests she took early last year had come up negative, but this time a faint plus sign surfaced in the plastic window. Samantha, 21, knew immediately what she wanted to do. One week later, Samantha and her partner spoke to a counselor at Affiliated Medical Services, a Milwaukee clinic that provides abortions. She determined she would prefer the medication option to the surgical option. This would allow her to terminate the pregnancy earlier by taking two pills. Carrying a 21-credit load at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and working 40 hours a week at a coffee shop, Samantha hoped to obtain the abortion as quickly as possible. But then the counselor raised a caveat. "After she finished explaining the procedure, she …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Kelly Herda is organizing women across Wisconsin to march on the state Capitol, one of 50 coordinated national efforts
On Saturday, women in all 50 states are uniting against the War on Women and marching on their state capitols. Among them is a Bayside mom who is spearheading a minivan brigade to Madison, where women plan to hold hands and surround the Capitol from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Kelly Herda said recent legislative changes and what she calls outright sexist comments from local politicians are driving her to fight for the rights of her daughters. "I have three daughters who, right now, are being told they’re second-class citizens," Herda said. Earlier this month, Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) sponsored legislation that repealed the state's 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which gave victims of wage discrimination a better chance in court. Grothman was…
Friday, April 20, 2012
The state's largest and oldest reproductive healthcare organization announced Friday it would no longer offer medication-induced abortions due to recent legislation it described as "vague."
Rep. Sandy Pasch (D-Whitefish Bay) joined state Democrats' cries of foul Friday over Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s announcement it would discontinue offering patients abortion medication in the first nine weeks of pregnancy. The non-profit reproductive healthcare provider's move follows Friday's activation of Act 217, signed into law two weeks ago by Gov. Scott Walker. The measure imposes criminal penalties for physicians who fail to follow established procedures in the new law. Teri Huyck, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said the measure is too "ambiguous and difficult to interpret." It requires a patient to visit the same doctor three times and the physician establish that women aren't coerced into abortion. …
Saturday, October 29, 2011
State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-Muskego, and state Republicans hope to eliminate a state requirement that schools teach about birth control along with abstinence, or notify parents that they're not doing so.
Sex education for high school students is back in the news as Wisconsin legislators push to repeal state requirements on teaching about birth control. State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-Muskego, and other Republican leaders want to undo a law passed in 2010 that requires Wisconsin high schools to teach about abstinence birth control, or notify parents they are not offering sex education. On Friday, Republicans used Gov. Scott Walker's special legislative session on jobs to work on repealing the Healthy Youth Law passed in 2010. The repeal (Senate Bill 237) passed on a 4-3 party-line vote. Lazich said the proposal was about returning control over sex education to school districts. But she also noted the Republican proposal would require schools …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Darling claims she left organization before she was elected to Assembly, but records shows she served on the board of directors until five years after she was elected.
Despite Sen. Alberta Darling's claim that she left the board of directors at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin before she was elected to the State Assembly in 1990, a review of the organization's records shows she spent five years on the board after being elected. And while Darling says she left the group when its focus "shifted" to abortion, Planned Parenthood actually began offering abortion services while she still was on the group's board. Darling's statement was in response to a journalist's question during a Newsmaker Luncheon Tuesday at the Milwaukee Press Club. "I belonged to the Planned Parenthood board when I was a very young woman, before I entered public office," said Darling, a Republican who is facing Democrat Sandy Pasch in …
Craig
10:31 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
Oh hell, someone mark the calendar. Greg will be paying 'till October 2031. Stay strong Greg, keep your legs crossed! more ›