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June 6, 2005
University of Wisconsin students react to possible contraception ban
Check out this piece on how students are feeling about Rep. Daniel LeMahieu's bill that would ban advertising and prescribing emergency contraception. I don't know if it was the report selectively quoting, but I was super-disappointed by the students' lack of outrage:
Lindsey Griswold, a senior at UW-Madison whose boyfriend attends UW-Fox Valley, said Tuesday that while she thinks emergency contraceptives should continue to be made available to students, she disagrees with the university’s explicit advertising tactics.
“I think it should be left available for instances where condoms would break, or rape,” she said. “But not just advertising it for reasons like being irresponsible or not using birth control or condoms at all.”
Griswold, who saw one of the ads, said she thought the subject was presented in a manner that assumed students would be engaging in unprotected sex.
“It’s OK to advertise it,” she said. “But to advertise it for planning ahead is like saying that they’re (students) planning to have unsafe sex.”
...Robert Mrotek, a junior at UW-Fox Valley, said while he would advocate the use of emergency contraceptives over abortion, he agrees with the legislation and thinks the availability of emergency contraceptives on state university campuses sends a negative message.
“I think the advertising of birth control and condoms is positive for our school,” said Mrotek. “But I don’t think the ‘morning-after pill’ is, just because it says that any college student can go out and have unsafe sex. That also leads to AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Basically the ‘morning-after pill’ is a lack of responsibility on both people.”
Um, I don’t know why anyone would associate emergency contraception with irresponsibility. No one would want to have unsafe sex and then use EC regularly. (I took EC a couple of years back and it made me feel super sick to my stomach. Not a feeling I would want to recreate.)
Any Wisconsin folks out there want to weigh in?
Posted by Jessica at June 6, 2005 4:47 PM
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