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Related: About this forumWisconsin: Planned Parenthood fights back against Mike Ellis and his Republican cronies
Planned Parenthood Press Release
Today, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin launched the first phase of an ad campaign highlighting Senate President Mike Ellis and his abysmal record on restricting access to womens health care. The ad features the public debate in the State Senate earlier this summer around a bill (SB 206) that was quickly passed to restrict womens access to safe and legal abortion. The ad campaign comes on the heels of a successful rally earlier this week that gathered hundreds of people from across the state to call on their legislative leaders to stop the attack on womens health and rights. The media campaign targets the Senate President Mike Ellis because he has used his power to shut down debate and facilitate the quick passage of an unprecedented number of bills that restrict womens healthcare access and rights. Since the start of his reign as Senate President, Senator Ellis has facilitated the passage of many bills that include:
2011 Act 32: State Budget that ended funding at Planned Parenthood for patients receiving cancer screenings, wellness exams and birth control resulting in the closure of four rural Health Centers,
2013 Act 20: State Budget which cut thousands of hardworking Wisconsin citizens from Badgercare,
2011 Act 219: which repealed equal pay protections for women
2011 Act 216: which repealed medically accurate age appropriate sex education guidelines for our youth to reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy and the spread of STDs
2013 Act 37: to restrict womens access to safe and legal abortion by adding unnecessary regulations for doctors providing abortion and additional requirements for women seeking this medical care.
Senate President Ellis has shown himself to be a career politician who doesnt listen to his constituents and consistently votes against womens ability to access essential healthcare, said Tanya Atkinson Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin right now, women are struggling more than ever before when it comes to getting health care. Over the last three years, Governor Scott Walker and the Legislatures Republican leadership have introduced, moved and passed over a dozen bills restricting womens access to everything from equal pay protections, health insurance coverage, sex education and birth control to abortion. Because of these laws womens health will suffer. Our health care costs will increase. There will be more undiagnosed cancers, sexually transmitted disease, unintended pregnancies, delayed prenatal care and yes, more abortions. Walker and the Republican majority are playing politics with womens health and reversing decades of bipartisan progress.
Wisconsin voters who value commonsense, quality womens health care have voices that matter, concluded Atkinson. It is up to us to insist that our leaders protect our health and wellbeing and stop this assault on womens access to health care.
As part of this campaign Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin will be educating our supporters to make sure they are aware of the dangerous bills that have already been passed restricting womens access to healthcare and the danger of even more policies will have on the health and safety of women, families and Wisconsin communities.
Through this campaign we will remind community members that we can prevail in protecting womens health and rights, but only if we remain engaged and hold our elected leaders accountable and call on them to represent our best interests as a state.
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Wisconsin: Planned Parenthood fights back against Mike Ellis and his Republican cronies (Original Post)
Scuba
Aug 2013
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riversedge
(70,177 posts)1. Good to see this.
riversedge
(70,177 posts)2. Here is a video of his psychotic outburst during the budget debate:
Rachel Maddow: #Wisconsin @GOP latest to push extreme anti-abortion laws http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/52187029#52187029 #wiunion
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/52187029#52187029
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. "Psychotic outburst" is a most appropriate description of Mike Ellis.