It’s been three years since the United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision and overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a federal right to abortion care, turning the power to regulate or ban the procedure over to individual states. That forced Megan Kling to leave Wisconsin for health care when her baby was not compatible with life.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Wisconsin Republicans invoked an 1849 criminal abortion ban, which does not include exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother, to restrict reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin legislative Democrats have introduced a new bill to protect Wisconsinites from losing access to life-saving reproductive health care.
BadgerCare is what Wisconsin calls its Medicaid program, so let’s learn why Medicaid is so important to more than 1 million people in the state and what Trump/Republican budget cuts would do to it.
The US Senate will examine the Trump budget bill this week. It includes the largest cut to Medicaid in the program's history. It also blocks Medicaid from paying for women’s health care services at Planned Parenthood clinics.
The State Assembly has approved a plan to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills and patches.
After vowing not to cut “a nickel” from benefits Wisconsin GOP House members vote for punishing cuts to food benefits and health care.
Abortion is already excluded from coverage—the new bill is going after all health care services the clinics provide for low-income Americans.
The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill this week with overwhelming support from both sides of the aisle to expand Medicaid coverage for new moms for a full year after birth. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is now the obstacle in getting low-income mothers some help.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin continue to work toward reproductive health as public health in Wisconsin.
Cutting life-saving services like Medicaid to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
