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Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’

Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’: Oklahoma already prevents women from using their insurance plans to help cover abortion services, but Republicans aren’t stopping there. One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason — based solely on the fact that [...]/p

Scott Walker’s Budget Cuts Force Planned Parenthood To Close Four Clinics In Rural Wisconsin

Scott Walker’s Budget Cuts Force Planned Parenthood To Close Four Clinics In Rural Wisconsin: Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have singled out Planned Parenthood in their crusade against women’s reproductive health — a popular anti-choice tactic that states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona have also employed over the past year. And now that Gov. Scott Walker’s (R-WI) budget has stripped over a million dollars of funding from the women’s health [...]/p

2012 Saw The Second Highest Number Of New Abortion Restrictions

2012 Saw The Second Highest Number Of New Abortion Restrictions: According to the Guttmacher Institute’s annual report on state-level abortion legislation, anti-choice lawmakers enacted the second highest number of new abortion restrictions in 2012 since the organization began tracking the annual data in 1985. This past year, 19 states passed 42 different provisions intended to restrict women’s access to abortion services — second only to [...]/p

2012 was a banner year for anti abortion laws

2012 was a banner year for antiabortion laws
"According to a policy review released by the Guttmacher Institute, 2012 saw the second-highest number of abortion restrictions ever enacted. The ranking comes as little surprise in a year when politicians like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock became household names, and one of the House’s staunchest antiabortion members got second billing on the Republican presidential ticket.

During the year, 19 states enacted 43 provisions to restrict access to abortion services, whether mandating invasive ultrasounds, blocking health insurance coverage, shuttering women’s health clinics or limiting access to the morning-after pill and contraception. The record for most restrictions was set in 2011 with 92.

The worst offenders? Arizona ranked No. 1, enacting seven antiabortion restrictions, and Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin followed close behind with at least three restrictions each."

Oklahoma Cuts Off Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood

Oklahoma Cuts Off Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood: The Oklahoma State Department of Heath has just announced that it will end its WIC contract with the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates, effectively cutting off the federal funding that the organization’s clinics rely on to provide health services to low-income women. The WIC program — which uses federal funds to provide food vouchers to low-income [...]/p