Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Pro-Life WI

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Madison - Schools that teach sex education would have to tell students that abstinence is the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy under a bill headed to Gov. Scott Walker.

The Assembly approved the measure early Wednesday, after approving a bill putting restrictions on some insurance coverage for abortions. Lawmakers were also to consider new limits that would prevent doctors from providing abortion drugs remotely through the use of web cameras. ...

The measure would require schools that teach that subject to promote marriage and tell students that abstinence is the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. It would allow schools to teach abstinence-only courses, which have been banned in Wisconsin since 2010 under a law passed by Democrats when they controlled state government. ...

Late Tuesday, the Assembly approved a bill 61-34 to prohibit the insurance plans to be offered in Wisconsin under the federal health care law from covering some abortions. The Senate approved the bill on a party-line, 17-16 vote in October, and it now goes to Walker. ...

Rep. Joel Kleefisch (R-Oconomowoc) tried to cast the bill in moral terms.

"We heard this is an attack on women, a war on women's rights," he said. "What about the rights of the women who have not yet been born?"

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