Thursday, December 13, 2012
Planned Parenthood filed suit Wednesday alleging the recently enacted state law — which subjects doctors who perform "pill abortions" to the risk of criminal penalties — doesn't clearly define procedures to satisfy the measure.
State Rep. Sandy Pasch is standing alongside Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin as the non-profit reproductive healthcare provider has filed a legal challenge to the state law that imposes possible criminal penalties against doctors who perform medication-induced abortions. Signed into law in April, Act 217 requires patients and doctors take a series of steps and physicians establish that women aren't coerced into abortion, before receiving or administering a so-called "pill abortion." Planned Parenthood filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Madison and lists Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and the Medical Examining Board as defendants, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The legal challenge claims the law does not clearly …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Academic experts weigh in on what the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act in its entirety means for citizens and the political parties.
With the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upholding the Affordable Care Act as constitutional, elected officials and hopefuls alike should be pretty satisfied, according to one Wisconsin professor. "The general status quo is that Republicans are against the health care law and Democrats are for it," said Charles Franklin, an expert in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Marquette University Law School poll project. "So, really, the high court's decision should make both sides politically happy because they can stick to their talking points." For the Obama Administration, they can say they did the right thing because the law passed constitutional muster, he added. Mitt Romney, whom President Barack …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Darling claims she left organization before she was elected to Assembly, but records shows she served on the board of directors until five years after she was elected.
Despite Sen. Alberta Darling's claim that she left the board of directors at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin before she was elected to the State Assembly in 1990, a review of the organization's records shows she spent five years on the board after being elected. And while Darling says she left the group when its focus "shifted" to abortion, Planned Parenthood actually began offering abortion services while she still was on the group's board. Darling's statement was in response to a journalist's question during a Newsmaker Luncheon Tuesday at the Milwaukee Press Club. "I belonged to the Planned Parenthood board when I was a very young woman, before I entered public office," said Darling, a Republican who is facing Democrat Sandy Pasch in …
Bob McBride
10:18 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Fine, then use what you've got, deal with the consequences or don't have sex. Unless you choose to abstain, you're still electively engaging in behavior that can result in pregnancy. If so, I don't feel sorry for you. I don't care if you experience pain, emotional or otherwise, as a result of it. I don't feel that, as a taxpayer, I should be paying anything to bail anyone out of the situation, … more ›