Plan P for politics take two

Both of the Republican candidates for Attorney General pounced on AG Peg Lautenschlager yesterday about her attempts to make Plan B available to women over the counter. Brian Fraley of DailyTakes sparked them all with his take here.

Don't be fooled by all the chest thumping about Lautenschlager's poor wording choices about her efforts. Bucher, Van Hollen and Fraley are using this to get attention to the fact that they don't think women should be able to get an FDA approved drug easily.

You have Fraley saying this:

This is, at best, a questionable use of scarce Wisconsin criminal justice funds.

Van Hollen saying this:

I can’t believe that our Attorney General is using the state’s resources to fight something like this

And Bucher saying this:

She demonstrated again today that she is too extreme for the top cop's job. She also demonstrated how she is once again using the position to further an activist, social agenda...

All spoken like men that will never get pregnant as the result of a rape.

This fight is about justice and that is what the office of the Attorney General is supposed to be used for.

It is about justice for the women in Wisconsin that will unfortunately be raped or become the victim of incest down the road. Justice for many of them will not be a trial. Many of the victims of these crimes do not wish to have a trial and relive the nightmare over and over. They should not be forced to go that route to get justice.

Justice for these victims would be making it easy for them to correct someone else's actions, not their own. Justice for them would be preventing a pregnancy.

I really don't think folks like Bucher, Van Hollen and Fraley understand just how often rapes occur in this country. When most people think about rape, they think about a scary man jumping out from behind a bush and raping a stranger.

Most rapes in this country are far different. They are committed by someone the victim knows. These are also the people most likely to NOT seek a trial to gain justice. That is why women should be allowed to have access to Plan B without all the political games folks like Bucher and Van Hollen want to put them through.