The Wisconsin Assembly is expected to pass a Republican-authored, bipartisan bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense birth control. The GOP-controlled Assembly passed the measure with bipartisan support last session, but it died in the Senate. Its sponsor, Republican Rep. Joel Kitchens, has said he’s optimistic it will get a vote this session. The vote Wednesday marks the first time the bill has come up since Wisconsin’s 1849 law banning abortion went back into effect following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Democrats successfully campaigned on abortion access in the past two elections.
@archomrade This is also the strategy that underpins right-wing efforts to make the pill over-the-counter: once doctors aren’t prescribing it the decision to carry it or not rests entirely with the point-of-contact for access. You can effectively build “dry counties” for the pill this way.