Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin responded Wednesday to two Republican proposals, saying the Walker administration is using political power to ""limit health-care access and information for the most vulnerable people in Wisconsin.""
State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, authored a bill Friday eliminating the requirement that local school districts with sex education programs have to include information about contraception. The legislation would make it illegal for volunteer-based health-care providers, like Planned Parenthood, to instruct in schools.
On Sept. 30, the state Department of Health Services announced 200,000 Medicaid recipients would be shifted to plans with fewer benefits, in order to close a $554 million deficit in Medicaid funding.
PPAWI responded to both proposals Wednesday.
""Walker and his legislative leaders are instead advancing a plan that will once again, push more working families out of critical health care programs and ultimately send our communities into greater economic turmoil and declining health outcomes,"" PPAWI Executive Director Tanya Atkinson said in a statement.
