There is a bill in the Wisconsin legislature that is intended to ban the morning after pill from distribution at the University of Wisconsin health service. Due to imprecise language it could wind up banning all birth control pills.

http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/news/story/p/pkid/21129

I would think this is just another stupid law, but in a radio report today I heard that it apparently has enough votes to pass the legislature, although it will almost certainly be vetoed.

It would ban "all forms of birth control that are taken post-coitally." This could be interpreted as banning the birth control pill which is taken on a continuous basis.

I think that this is just another attempt to impose one set of religous/moral values on people who do not share them. Also from a practical viewpoint, it will result in many more pregnancies if passed. Also it will make it illegal to use the morning after pill to prevent pregnancy in rape victims.

I hope a few of those legislators have wives and daughters who will smack them up asisde the head.

That will go over well at the school.

Has Wisconsin gone conservative since I left?

A stellar example of another really dumb law being proposed by those who no longer play the games. That would be a significant step backward if it ever got into law, even if the courts blew it out of the water the next day. The idiotic mentality would still be there.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
That will go over well at the school.

Has Wisconsin gone conservative since I left?

Many parts were always conservative. What may have changed since you left is the explosive growth in the suburban ring around both Milwaukee and Madison. Those suburbs are very conservative indeed. The rural areas of Wisconsin are also quite consevative. What wisconsin is now is deeply divided. Each of the last two presidential elections were within a few thousand votes statewide. The biggest factor however is that when the last redrawing of the legislative districts occurred the Republicans controlled the assembly and the Governor was Republican as well. The State Senate was within one vote of a Republican majority. The compromise that resulted favored the Republicans signifigantly.