GOP Lawmaker Argues Against Contraception

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GOP Lawmaker Argues Against Contraception

June 26, 2023 at 1:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 215 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/26/gop-lawmaker-argues-against-contraception/

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Wisconsin state Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R) Link to tweet
?s=20" target="_blank">railed against contraception, arguing that it leads to infidelity and a “proliferation of STDs.”

Said Wichgers: “It opens up the door to marital infidelity, and it did. The government might force contraceptives upon married couples; that’s happened in other countries. So, the government gets to have a role—they get to play “supreme ruler.”

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[Demovictory9]

1. Wow

[skypilot]

2. leads to infidelity

Probably cheating on his wife then.

[applegrove]

3. If he said it out loud, he has support from his GOP colleagues in private.

[calimary]

4. Sheesh - they are DESPERATE to turn back the clock to medieval times.

[Clash City Rocker]

5. So, condoms lead to STDs?

[Aristus]

6. Oh, don't start making sense.

You'll befuddle this pathetic old geezer's empty head...

[hatrack]

13. Yes, and infidelity NEVER happened before The Pill . . .

[CurtEastPoint]

7. JFC... his fucking FACE is a contraceptive.

[DBoon]

9. Makes me wish his mom used contraceptives

[keep_left]

8. He's just plagiarizing what is said every day on radtrad Catholic radio and TV.

This is the de rigueur narrative that is pushed 24/7 on EWTN, (Ir)-Relevant Radio, Ave Maria Radio (Ave Maria anything)...it's really tiresome hearing the constant thought-terminating clichés echo through the media like this. They inevitably start out with some ranting priest on EWTN and always end up being parroted by some clown like Wichgers.

[rurallib]

10. Just thinking I first heard this shit in the mid 60s in my catholic school

[keep_left]

12. Yeah, and they want to take us back to the mid-'60s...the mid-1260s.

[JanMichael]

11. Too bad he doesn't "accidentally" get pregnant due to no contraceptives.

[Hekate]

14. So he has 12 children? If not, why not?

[applegrove]

15. He should have 22 children.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. He has 8. Which, given his views, is a blight on the world unless they all rebel

and tell him how wrong he is.

[GenThePerservering]

16. This is something that men have no business

legislating. None.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-contraception. Profession: "medical sales". And says 2020 was stolen

This is the ultimate Republican. Dumb as half a brick, and yet made a living in the field.

In 2017, he sponsored a controversial bill that would allow chiropractors to give physicals to student athletes. (Under current Wisconsin law, only physicians and physician assistants may do so.)[3] In 2021, he sponsored legislation to prohibit public schools from teaching students and employees about concepts such as systemic racism and implicit bias; the bill passed an Assembly committee on a party-line vote.[4]

In March 2020, Wichgers opposed a Wisconsin Department of Health Services rule that seventh-grade students to receive the meningitis vaccine, a key protection against bacterial meningitis. The proposal to oppose the changes was adopted on party lines in a committee vote.[5] October 2020, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin, Wichgers was one of several Wisconsin Republican legislators who attended an indoor mass gathering hosted by an anti-abortion organizations without wearing masks.[6] In August 2021, Wichgers delivered a speech to pro-freedom and pro-choice protestors at the Wisconsin State Capitol, at which demonstrators likened COVID-19 vaccines to genocide and tyranny.[7]

After Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Wichgers was one of 15 Wisconsin Republican legislators (joined by 76 Republican state legislators from other states) who attempted to subvert the election result and block Biden's victory. On January 5, 2021—one day before a violent pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol—Wichgers signed a letter asking Vice President Mike Pence to delay the legally-mandated counting of the electoral votes for 10 days while they worked to convince Republican-controlled state legislators in key states won by Biden to overturn the election results, keeping Trump in power for another term.[8][9] On July 25, 2022, Wichgers joined fellow Wisconsin Rep. Tim Ramthun's effort to pass a bill that would have the state legislature decertify its results from the 2020 presidential election and recall Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, which went to Joe Biden.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Wichgers