Posted by JM Ashby
Is this what Walker was referring to when he said he was going to provide the "tools" needed for communities to repair their budgets?
WASHINGTON – A provision in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) revised two-year budget proposal released Tuesday would repeal a state law requiring health insurers to cover prescription birth control.
The controversial anti-union proposal would also repeal the Contraceptive Equity law, which establishes birth control as a necessity for insurers to cover rather than "optional care." First introduced in 1999, it was enacted in 2009 under Gov. Jim Doyle (D). It took effect January 1, 2010.
Birth control is prescribed for a variety of reasons, and make no mistake, if insurers aren't required to cover it they probably won't.
The war on women continues.