Article: FAMILY PLANNING POLICY MERITS PUBLIC SUPPORT THE STATE'S PROGRAM TO PREVENT UNWANTED PREGNANCIES AMONG LOW-INCOME WOMEN PROVES TO BE A COST SAVER FOR TAXPAYERS.(OPINION)(Editorial)

When a government policy is as successful as Wisconsin's program to reduce unwanted pregnancies among low-income women, it deserves to be held up as a model. After all, if a policy works, it's in everyone's interest to apply the success formula as broadly and as often as prudent.

That's why state Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and the Family Research Institute of Wisconsin were so wrongheaded with their criticism of the program known as the family planning waiver, which allows low-income women to receive reproductive health care and contraceptives. Knee-jerk ideological reactions like those from Grothman and the Family Research Institute are barriers to ...

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