Abortion, sex education bills passed (WI)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

7:25 AM, Mar. 14, 2012 |

MADISON — The Wisconsin Assembly passed bills limiting insurance coverage for abortions and requiring schools to teach abstinence during a late-night session that lasted until Wednesday morning as they pushed to tie up pending legislation.

The Legislature was poised to adjourn Thursday without passing its two highest priorities coming into the year: a mining bill to help create hundreds of jobs in northern Wisconsin and a measure pumping money into venture capital to help spur new business creation.


Instead, lawmakers spent the early morning hours Wednesday fighting over abortion rights and sex education. The Assembly also passed a bill creating the state's first wolf hunting season.


Democrats decried the abortion and sex education bills as part of a national war on women, but they didn't have the votes to stop them.


Read more: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120314/GPG0101/120314016/Abortion-sex-education-bills-passed

[Ilsa]

1. Getting wimmen-folk under control

was more important than their economy and jobs. Sounds like a good battle cry to me.

I wonder, was it abstinence-only to be taught or in addition to real sex education? I guess WI will be seeing a big population boom amongst teenagers if it was abstinence-only.

[MuseRider]

4. Well now, once they drive us wimmen folk

back under the cover of our homes (where we belong) all those jobs we have been hogging up will be open so the true bread winners can come back into the force. Wait and see how wonderful our country becomes, how correct and lovely it will be once again once the men are finally given their due and wimmen are back where they belong, at home listening to their men and birthing more babies.

[Chipper Chat]

9. Thank you Wisconsin.

Now my wife can stay home 24 hrs a day and I can go and stay out all night drinkin'.
USA! USA! USA!

[h2ebits]

14. I agree

I've been saying this for a while now myself. When Indiana governor, what's-his-name, gave the rebuttal speech to Obama's State of the Union message, he only talked about the unemployment rate for MEN. I think that the unstated message of the Repubs is to get women out of the workforce and put men back in control with power over women. Voila! The unemployment rate will go down and won't all the men be ever so much happier.

[AllyCat]

12. We already are. I work in labor and delivery.

I cannot even say how many teenage girls have come in to become mothers in the last two weeks, let alone the last year. I think the bill they were originally floating was MOSTLY abstinence-only with a little brief discussion of real forms of birth control. Not sure what those losers passed last night. All I can say is thank goodness we have elections coming up and a fired up population that is sick of this $hit.

[BigDemVoter]

19. Yeah, and we saw how well abstinence worked for Bristol Palin!!!

[freshwest]

16. And then how will the fathers support these babies? HUH?

[Ilsa]

21. That's right. Theyll be tossed

into the workforce prematurely to support their little family or pay child support. The GOP program increases the availability of near-slave labor.

[catbyte]

2. The GOP is unbelievable

It's like they can't help themselves. I really hope the voters remember this bait-and-switch in November and send these troglodytes back to the Stone Age where they belong.

[47of74]

3. I bet that beady eyed piece of waste Walker can't wait to sign this stuff either

[pbrower2a]

5. Is it any wonder that they are losing the female vote

-- and badly?

I almost think that the Republicans want economic growth through population growth so that the workforce expands with inadequate growth in economic opportunity but added pressure on resources.

Is it any wonder that the GOP hates President Obama just for the Lillie Ledbetter Act? Treating women badly is pro-male... only for bad men.

[PassingFair]

10. Just a bunch of teabaggers having some fun.

Teabaggers weren't shy about what they wanted.

Now they're legislating.

[freshwest]

17. Overpopulation and no work is a recipe for waging wars and slavery.

Guess who is going to profit off those?

[lunatica]

6. Another piece of shit legislation to add to the list

Of things to be revoked when they get rid of the shits who pass this shitty shit.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Does anybody else think the GOP is really pushing this agenda because

they know their days in power are numbered?

[AndyTiedye]

15. No. They Think They Have it In the Bag No Matter What

They are firing up their "base" to steal the elections.

[hue]

8. Yes to all of the above. This is the ALEC template/agenda. Nothing new....the same for all states.

[freshwest]

18. +1

[Marrah_G]

11. This course of action the GOP has chosen all over the country will come back to bite them

People are getting more and more pissed off.

[BadgerKid]

13. Schools to teach abstinence in late-night sessions?

Grammar check, aisle 4!

[Thor_MN]

23. Well, most sex does occur late night...

Best chance an abstinence class has of preventing sex is round up the kids, seperate them by sex and lock them up all night in classrooms. Still not going to work worth a damn, but it could make a tiny dent in teen sex...

[Scuba]

20. Next up: repealing women's right to vote.

[freshwest]

22. They've called for repealing women's right to vote for years.

Their most prominent mouthpiece on that was Ann Coulter. They want to take us back to the era before the American Revolution. Only landed gentry voting. Slavery, too, would be okay.