| There are 634,250 women in Wisconsin in need of contraceptive services and/or supplies. Of these, 294,440 women - including 95,340 teenagers - are in need of publicly supported contraceptive services. |
Advance comprehensive women's health in Wisconsin by engaging, educating,
empowering and mobilizing individuals and organizations. |
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|  | | US court tells FDA to rethink Plan B contraceptive 3/22/09
On March 22, 2009, A U.S. court ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its decisions on the sale of the Plan B emergency contraceptive and ordered its producer to make the pills available to 17-year-olds without a prescription. |
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| Obama Rescinds “Global Gag Rule” 1/23/09
President Obama on January 23 affirmed his administration’s strong commitment to women’s health and international family planning assistance by rescinding the “global gag rule” and by committing the United States to restoring support for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The global gag rule—also known as the Mexico City policy—prohibited overseas organizations from receiving U.S. family planning assistance if they used their non-U.S. funds to provide abortion information, services or counseling, or engaged in any abortion rights advocacy. |
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| CDC Issues Final Births Data for 2006 01/07/09
The teen birth rate increased in more than half of all 50 states in 2006, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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| New Medicaid Documentation Requirements as of 07/01/06
Beginning on July 1, 2006, all new Medicaid applicants and all current Medicaid beneficiaries who have not previously proved their citizenship status must produce acceptable documentation. |
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| Teen Births Cost U.S. Government $9.1B in 2004
The U.S. government in 2004 incurred at least $9.1 billion in costs related to teen births, despite significant decreases in teen pregnancy and birth rates since the early 1990s, according to a report released by the National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy. |
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| AGI Report Shows Low-Income Women Have Less Access to Contraception
"Abortion in Women's Lives," a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, documents a widening reproductive health gap between low-income women and higher-income women. From the 1980s to the mid- 1990s, women of all income groups became more likely to use contraceptives and less likely to experience unintended pregnancies. But since 1994, unplanned pregnancy rates among poor women have increased by 29%, while rates among higher-income women have decreased by 20%. A poor woman is four times as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy as a higher-income woman. |
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