The Wisconsin General Assembly passed a law prohibiting morning-after pills on state college campuses:
The legislation would prohibit University of Wisconsin System health centers from advertising, prescribing or dispensing emergency contraception – drugs that can block a pregnancy in the days after sex. The state university system has 161,000 students on 26 campuses.
Republican Rep. Daniel LeMahieu introduced the bill after a health clinic serving UW-Madison students published ads in campus newspapers inviting students to call for prescriptions for the drug to use on spring break.
‘Are we going to change the lifestyle of every UW student? No,’ LeMahieu said. ‘But we can tell the university that you are not going to condone it, you are not going to participate in it, and you are not going to use our tax dollars to do it.’
The ban does not extend to privately funded colleges or other state systems. Virginia has tried to pass similar legislation in previous General Assembiles.