The Wisconsin Assembly is expected to pass a Republican-authored, bipartisan bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense birth control. The GOP-controlled Assembly passed the measure with bipartisan support last session, but it died in the Senate. Its sponsor, Republican Rep. Joel Kitchens, has said he’s optimistic it will get a vote this session. The vote Wednesday marks the first time the bill has come up since Wisconsin’s 1849 law banning abortion went back into effect following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Democrats successfully campaigned on abortion access in the past two elections.
As a Minnesotan not completely in the know about the Wisconsin Legislature, what are the chances of this actually happening?
At face value this seems like the thing that republicans wouldn’t support… that being said the article says that the assembly is “expected to pass a Republican-authored, bipartisan bill”.
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But isn’t it way easier to walk into a pharmacy that’s out-of-area than it is to find and schedule with a doctor that’s out-of-area?
I guess I just can’t imagine this being any more effective at discouraging birth control than the current alternative, especially since I don’t see anything that says doctors couldn’t still prescribe it too?
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