April 15, 2005

Statehouse Digest

By KARIN FISCHER

EMERGENCY BIRTH CONTROL: Wisconsin's attorney general, Peggy A. Lautenschlager, has said legislation that would prevent the University of Wisconsin System from advertising, prescribing, or dispensing emergency contraception is unconstitutional. Ms. Lautenschlager, a Democrat, said preventing the college from providing the morning-after pill would violate female students' right to privacy and discriminate against them by denying them access to medication that only women may need. Democratic

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