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Wisconsin
Wisconsin Healthy Youth Act Signed Into Law
By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
February 24, 2010 - 5:55pm
Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle signed the Healthy Youth Act into law, mandating that all sex ed classes be medically-accurate, evidence-based and age-appropriate.
Published under: Real Time Blog | Access to Abortion | Contraception | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Women’s Rights | Governor Jim Doyle | Healthy Youth Act | Planned PArenthood advocates of wisconsin | Wisconsin
Roundup: Abstinence Study Fall Out
By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
February 2, 2010 - 9:57am
Did a new study about abstinence eduction catch comprehensive sex ed proponents with their pants down?
Published under: Real Time Blog | Contraception | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | abstinence-only education | Healthy Youth Act | Pro-life Wisconsin | sex ed | Utah | Wisconsin
Progress Being Made on Wisconsin's Healthy Youth Act
By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
January 27, 2010 - 1:33pm
Wisconsin's Healthy Youth Act moves beyond committee and prepares for a vote on the senate floor.
Published under: Real Time Blog | Access to Abortion | Contraception | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Women’s Rights | adolescent sexuality | Health Youth Act | Planned PArenthood advocates of wisconsin | teen pregnancy | Wisconsin
UPDATED: Time to Turn the Lights on in Wisconsin Schools
By Chris Taylor, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
January 27, 2010 - 8:00am
A broad coalition of medical and social service groups supports passage of the Healthy Youth Act in Wisconsin. But a minority is using coercive tactics and misinformation to kill a bill that would fund desperately-needed services.
Published under: Leading Voices | Access to Abortion | Contraception | Maternal Health | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Women’s Rights | adolescent sexuality | comprehensive sex education | Healthy Youth Act | teen pregnancy | Wisconsin
It's Cold in Wisconsin, But the Fight Is Just Warming Up - A Wisconsin Reproductive Roundup
By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
January 5, 2010 - 9:00am
Fighting condoms in high schools, trying to defund Planned Parenthoods, bemoaning birth control being covered by insurers, and trying to excommunicate Catholics. Pro-life Wisconsin and their cohorts have been busy this year. A look at reproductive rights in Wisconsin.
Published under: Access to Abortion | Contraception | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | 50 state roundup | Catholics for Choice | Human Life Alliance | Pro-life Wisconsin | Wisconsin | Young catholics for choice
Roundup: Out With the Old, and In With the... Old
By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
January 4, 2010 - 10:07am
Here comes the new year, same as the old year. It may be 2010 on the calendar, but it looks like a lot of legislators are still replaying 2009 in their sessions. Also, probably the only time you'll hear me say, "Go, Wisconsin!"
Published under: Real Time Blog | Access to Abortion | Contraception | abortion | Alaska | Kansas | Oklahoma | parental notification | Wisconsin
Forty Days of Protesting Birth Control: This is "Pro-Life?"
September 24, 2009 - 7:00am
Hunter Stuart traveled to Wisconsin to report on anti-contraception protests at family planning clinics that do not provide abortions... ever. Also watch Hunter's video report.
Published under: Contraception | Women’s Rights | Birth Control | Far Right | protests | religious right | Video | Wisconsin
Speeches Mattered on Wisconsin's Primary Night
By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check
February 20, 2008 - 11:23am
In a week that focused us on a war of words, Wisconsin's primary night continued to underscore consistent themes for the 2008 election; politics as usual won't work.
Published under: Access to Abortion | Contraception | Election 2008 | Maternal Health | Sexuality Education | STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention | Women’s Rights | Hillary Clinton | Mike Huckabee | John McCain | Barack Obama | Wisconsin
























