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Assembly to Vote on Banning Morning-After Pill
on UW System Campuses

The State Assembly will take up a bill Thursday to prohibit the University of Wisconsin System from advertising, prescribing or dispensing the morning-after pill on its statewide campuses.

Authored by State Representative Dan LeMahieu (R-Oostburg), the legislation was prompted by a series of recent ads published in campus newspapers by the UW-Madison health services division encouraging students to “prepare” for spring break by accessing emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill, over the phone and without an appointment.

“There is widespread and bi-partisan support for this common sense legislation,” said Peggy Hamill, state director for Pro-Life Wisconsin, which strongly supports the bill. “We know that the morning-after pill can act to chemically abort a tiny preborn baby, and we also know that it is a powerful and potentially dangerous drug regimen for young women. Wisconsin’s state universities should not be in the business of handing out the morning-after pill,” said Hamill.

The legislation specifically targets the morning-after pill, defined as a hormonal medication or combination medications that is administered only after sexual intercourse for the post-coital control of fertility. The Pill and other routine hormonal birth control methods are administered before sexual intercourse and are therefore not subject to the prohibitions in the bill.

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