| 74% of voters believe that the way to make abortions rare is to make sure that women and teens have access to family planning and sex education that includes information about birth control and abstinence. |
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| The 2011-13 budget included provisions that limited families access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services. The budget destabilized Wisconsin’s family planning programs and repealed important aspects of our Medical Assistance waiver program relating to family planning services. These two proposals would restore these laws to their condition prior to Acts 10 and 32 and make sure that Wisconsinites most in need once again have access to critical health care services which additionally attract millions of needed federal funds into the state.
Healthy Women – Healthy Families, Part One: (LRB-2673) reverses restrictions on family planning funding changes made in the budget (Rep. Chris Taylor)
• Restores state family planning monies for critical health care providers
• Eliminates the restriction that the DHS can only give money for family planning to public entities
• Eliminates the gag provision and restrictions on all options pregnancy counseling. These restrictions violate medical ethics and informed consent laws;
• Guarantees contraception is included in our family planning program
Healthy Women – Healthy Families, Part Two: (LRB-2549) reinstates Family Planning Waiver to 2010 levels (Rep. Kelda Helen Roys)
• Grants access to more low-income families by recodifying the income eligibility under the Medical Assistance waiver program at 300% of the federal poverty level.
• Restores eligibility to women and men
• Eliminates the ability of DHS to supersede state statute by administrative rule with regard to the Medical Assistance family planning project. |
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