Walker’s Union Busting Budget Also Wages War On Women
There is literally nothing that the GOP won’t use to advance their anti-women agenda. As if Scott Walker’s union busting bill wasn’t bad enough, it also restricts women’s access to birth control and vital health care services:
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would repeal a state law requiring insurance companies cover prescription birth control.
Walker’s budget released Tuesday would undo the law signed in 2009 by his Democratic predecessor Gov. Jim Doyle. Passage of the bill, which took effect last year, came after more than a decade of trying by Democrats.
But Gov. Walker’s anti-birth control agenda doesn’t just stop with banning insurance coverage. Taking a page from Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) playbook, Walker’s budget also eliminates Title V, “the only state funded family planning health care” that “ensures access to critical health care services for uninsured Wisconsinites including cervical, breast, and prostate cancer screening, well women exams, sexually transmitted disease screening and treatment, and access to contraception.”
This bill is a perfect fusion of the GOP’s goals - repealing Democratic initiatives while offering no alternatives of their own, crushing ordinary working people to the benefit of the wealthy, and returning women to the Middle Ages.