Wisconsin budget committee to vote Wednesday on defunding Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin

Pro-Life Wisconsin applauded Governor Walker for these common sense budget provisions that respect the consciences of Wisconsin taxpayers. And we again urge you to contact your state representative and state senator NOW and encourage him or her to support the following two provisions in the Governor’s biennial budget bill:

1)  Eliminating Title V state family planning funds
As it confronts an over $3 billion structural deficit, the state of Wisconsin can no longer afford the controversial business of “family planning.” All money is fungible. Family planning funds free up resources within receiving organizations, like Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, to engage in the surgical abortion business. Confidential family planning services also include the provision of chemically abortifacient birth control drugs, such as the morning-after pill and the patch, to adults and minor children. Governor Walker’s budget eliminates state family planning funding under the Title V Maternal & Child Health Block Grant Program ($1.9 million in annual general fund spending). Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the state’s largest abortion provider, annually receives over $900,000 in Title V state family planning funding. Polls consistently demonstrate that Americans are opposed to taxpayer funding of abortions.

2)  Removing boys/men from the BadgerCare Family Planning Program
The Governor’s budget removes men aged 15-44 from the BadgerCare Family Planning Program (formerly known as the Medicaid Family Planning Waiver Program before the Obama Administration made the program permanent in Wisconsin last year). This state/federal program provides free, taxpayer-funded birth control to 15, 16 and 17-year-old boys and girls without their parents’ knowledge or consent. This undermines parental authority in the sensitive area of teen sexual health and increases underage pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases by encouraging sexual promiscuity. We thank the Governor for removing boys from this program, and we encourage the Wisconsin Legislature to also remove minor girls by requesting a federal waiver to raise the program’s minimum eligibility age from 15 to 18.

Pro-Life Wisconsin