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Universal health care: We're right, they're wrong

Gandhi said that even if you were a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Apparently, the Wisconsin Assembly doesn't get it:

The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on state college campuses, a restriction that would be the first in the nation if approved...

The legislation would prohibit University of Wisconsin System health centers from advertising, prescribing or dispensing emergency contraception: drugs that can block a pregnancy in the days after sex...

Republican Rep. Daniel LeMahieu introduced the bill after a health clinic serving UW-Madison students published ads in campus newspapers inviting students to call for prescriptions for the drug to use on spring break.

"Are we going to change the lifestyle of every UW student? No," LeMahieu said. "But we can tell the university that you are not going to condone it, you are not going to participate in it, and you are not going to use our tax dollars to do it."

That's nice, but there are some Constitutional questions that have to be answered:
Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider called the measure "a direct frontal assault on the right to privacy, on the right of free speech, on the right of a free press."
And then there's that whole ignore-history-and-you'll-be-doomed-to-relive-it thing:
"Apparently some in this body want to take us back to the time when the dispensing of contraception was a criminal act," Schneider said.
Yeah, I know -- people should take responsibility for their actions. But what's your Plan B? More abortions? Jail-time for those who sell contraband contraceptives?


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