Students from Ripon College in Wisconsin are selling “I heart birth control� shirts in response to anti-choice madness--the recent South Dakota abortion ban and a bill that would prohibit all University of Wisconsin campuses from dispensing emergency contraception. Love it.
Jordyn Rush, public relations chair for the Ripon Democrats and communications chair for the state party, is spearheading the shirts' sales on campus."What I've told a lot of people is that I agree with Bill Clinton's stance on [abortion]-that abortions need to be safe, legal and rare," says Rush. "If we promote birth control use then abortions will become more rare, but everyone still needs to have that option."
Rush hopes the shirts will increase the campus pro-choice message, one she feels has been voiced too softly this school year.
Good for them!
The proposed EC-ban comes from Rep. Daniel LeMahieu (Mr. Birth-Control-Makes-Girls-Whores) who started this nonsense after a UW-Madison health clinic ran ads in campus newspapers for emergency contraception.
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"What I've told a lot of people is that I agree with Bill Clinton's stance on [abortion]-that abortions need to be safe, legal and rare," says Rush. "If we promote birth control use then abortions will become more rare, but everyone still needs to have that option."
Am I the only one who read that paragraph out of context just for fun?
Why do these Republicans have to go and be homewreckers? I love my 'Sconie and I'm used to it being a mostly sensible state. At least, Madison/Milwaukee tend to be sensible. I can't say as much for the hicks up in the north woods where I come from.
This makes me happy - it is a man who is promoting this stance. Good for him!
Yeah, I'm glad to see that at least one man has figured out that taking away access to birth control will affect men as well as women.
Rush is a woman ("Rush hopes the shirts will increase the campus pro-choice message, one she feels has been voiced too softly this school year.") It's just a dude in the picture...but good for that dude, too.
The funny thing is that Ripon is not in the University of Wisconsin system, and would not be affected by the ban. Hopefully some UW schools will borrow the idea and stop letting private schools do all their dirty work.
Something else to love about Wisconsin! (Others include cheese curds and frozen custard, of course.)