Bill to block state employees' insurance plans from covering abortions clears Assembly

The Assembly this afternoon OK’d a bill that would prohibit the Group Insurance Board from providing abortions for public employees or contracting to do.

The bill, which cleared the chamber on a 61-35 party-line vote, passed over Dem objections that the legislation was anti-women and would limit access to women’s reproductive health care options.

“This is a bill that is about taking away health care that women currently have access to,” said Rep. Lisa Subeck, D-Madison. “We don’t want to continue down this path of putting politics ahead of women.”

But Republicans countered the bill seeks to ensure taxpayers aren’t funding abortions for any group of people.

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