Save the Tiny Embryonic Humans!
Yes, that's what some in the Wisconsin State Legislature want to do. In today's STrib we get the story:
RIVER FALLS, WIS. -- Even after years as a nurse at the University of Wisconsin campus here, Linda Vigars says her heart still melts when she sees a student seeking emergency contraception -- the so-called morning-after birth-control pill.
Broken condoms bring women to the campus clinic. Or lapses in judgment after drinking alcohol. More rarely, it's a sexual assault.
Vigars listens to their stories, outlines their options and explains how the two-pill combination can prevent an unplanned pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex.
But a bill moving through Wisconsin's Legislature could prohibit student health service workers at the state's 26 college campuses from giving that counseling -- or prescribing emergency contraception.
Say what? This is about pills taken within a very short time after unprotected sex, not six months into a pregnancy. Ah, but here's the erudite reasoning of these legislators:
The campaign against the morning-after pill is being led by legislators and activists who contend that it is a type of abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus.
"The morning-after pill kills tiny embryonic human beings and very much harms women," said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, which says it represents 20,000 families in the state.
Yup, a few cells which haven't even attached themselves to the uterine wall are now considered "tiny embryonic human beings."
Obviously, not everyone agrees with Pro-Life Wisconsin.
Advocates for family planning and abortion rights view the bill quite differently -- and say they are determined to stop it from becoming law.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reflecting the consensus of the medical profession, does not consider the drug an abortion pill because it believes pregnancy does not begin until a fertilized egg implants in the lining of the uterus.
Unfortunately, the bill looks to pass both houses of the Wisconsin legilature. Fortunately, Governor Jim Doyle has promised to veto it.
To all you Badgers out there: get on the phone or zip off an email to your legislators and to your governor. Tell them to stop this nonsense and follow Roe v Wade, which, the last time I looked, was still the law of the land.
RIVER FALLS, WIS. -- Even after years as a nurse at the University of Wisconsin campus here, Linda Vigars says her heart still melts when she sees a student seeking emergency contraception -- the so-called morning-after birth-control pill.
Broken condoms bring women to the campus clinic. Or lapses in judgment after drinking alcohol. More rarely, it's a sexual assault.
Vigars listens to their stories, outlines their options and explains how the two-pill combination can prevent an unplanned pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex.
But a bill moving through Wisconsin's Legislature could prohibit student health service workers at the state's 26 college campuses from giving that counseling -- or prescribing emergency contraception.
Say what? This is about pills taken within a very short time after unprotected sex, not six months into a pregnancy. Ah, but here's the erudite reasoning of these legislators:
The campaign against the morning-after pill is being led by legislators and activists who contend that it is a type of abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus.
"The morning-after pill kills tiny embryonic human beings and very much harms women," said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, which says it represents 20,000 families in the state.
Yup, a few cells which haven't even attached themselves to the uterine wall are now considered "tiny embryonic human beings."
Obviously, not everyone agrees with Pro-Life Wisconsin.
Advocates for family planning and abortion rights view the bill quite differently -- and say they are determined to stop it from becoming law.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reflecting the consensus of the medical profession, does not consider the drug an abortion pill because it believes pregnancy does not begin until a fertilized egg implants in the lining of the uterus.
Unfortunately, the bill looks to pass both houses of the Wisconsin legilature. Fortunately, Governor Jim Doyle has promised to veto it.
To all you Badgers out there: get on the phone or zip off an email to your legislators and to your governor. Tell them to stop this nonsense and follow Roe v Wade, which, the last time I looked, was still the law of the land.
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