"Birth control leads to promiscuity"

This, according to Wisconsin State Representative Dan LeMahieu, who successfully sponsored a bill to Ban campuses in the University of Wisconsin system from dispensing birth control or counselling rape victims. This despite the fact that funds for student health services are paid for by student fees, not tax dollars. Several other feminist bloggers have already talked about this, and pointed out that birth control does not, in fact, increase the incidence of sexual activity (and surely rape counselling doesn't, good lord, unless Representative LeMahieu thinks that rape counts as sexual activity and that counselling women afterwards will somehow encourage them to go get raped again) but here's my question:

Even if it were true that birth control leads to promiscuity, what business is that of the stat of Wisconsin? College students are adults.

In other old-men-with-control-fetishes-about-young-women news, Pataki plans to veto over the counter EC because it would also be available to minors. Never mind that pregnancy is more dangerous than emergency contraception--hell, cold medicine is more dangerous than emergency contraception. Apparently the belief is that the veto is part of Pataki's preparation for a presidential run.

Think about that. The Republican party is promoting laws to make birth control and rape counselling unavilable; to allow pharmcists to deny birth control even with a prescription; to deny emergency contraception to women, including rape victims, who need it to prevent pregnancy; and to restrict abortion. Bush has nominated a Supreme Court Justice who we have reason to believe wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.

No birth control. No emergency contraception, not even if you are raped. No counselling if you are raped. No abortion.

Sound like hyperbole? Don't blame the messenger.