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| − | [[Milwaukee]] | + | [[Milwaukee]] is home to three professional sports teams. The [[Milwaukee Brewers|Brewers]] (baseball), the [[Milwaukee Bucks|Bucks]] (basketball), and the Admirals (hockey). Wisconsin is also home to the [[Green Bay Packers]] football team which has largest following of any professional sports team in the state. Wisconsin is also home to various college sports programs, most notably the Wisconsin Badgers and the Marquette Golden Eagles. |
== Abortion in Wisconsin == | == Abortion in Wisconsin == | ||
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| Capital | Madison |
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| Nickname | The Badger State |
| Official Language | None |
| Governor | Jim Doyle, D |
| Senator | Russ Feingold, D {{{s1phone}}} [{{{s1email}}}] |
| Senator | Herb Kohl, D {{{s2phone}}} [{{{s2email }}}] |
| Ratification of Constitution/or statehood | May 29, 1848 (30th) |
| Flag of Wisconsin | Motto: Forward |
Wisconsin, the "Badger State", or unofficially "America's Dairyland", was the thirtieth state to enter the union, on May 29, 1848. The capital city of Wisconsin is Madison. The state is expected to be a key battleground in the 2008 Presidential Election. It is the home state of former Secretary of Health and Human services, Tommy Thompson, who served as a four-term governor from 1987 to 2001.
The town of Ripon in Wisconsin has been considered "The Birthplace of the Republican Party".
The state tree is the sugar maple, the state song is "On Wisconsin", the state flower is the wood violet, the state bird is the American robin, the state animal is the badger, the state fossil is the trilobite, and the state fish is the muskellunge.[1]
Wisconsin's nickname, "The Badger State," recalls the lead mining boom of the 1830s. Wisconsin was a mining state before it was a farm state. Native Americans knew about lead deposits; initially, metallic lead could be picked up from the ground without digging. Cornish miners were some of the earliest European settlers of the state.[2] Southwestern Wisconsin is now a sparsely populated agricultural region, but for a while it was the economic center of the state. The first territorial capital was Belmont,[3] located about thirty miles from Dubuque, Iowa). Lead mining peaked in the mid-1840s, and the California gold rush of 1849 drew many miners away. The current population of Belmont is 891.[4]
Wisconsin cannot be stereotyped politically. It is often associated with the name of anti-communist crusader Joseph McCarthy, but is equally tied to that of Robert M. La Follette and his Progressive Party. Victor Berger, the first socialist elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Frank Zeidler, the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1948-1960 was the last in a string of twelve socialist mayors of Milwaukee, whose emphasis on the basics of municipal service led them to be called "sewer Socialists."[5]
Wisconsin was the first state to allow women to vote in local elections, in 1840, though the right was later rescinded.
Sports in Wisconsin
Milwaukee is home to three professional sports teams. The Brewers (baseball), the Bucks (basketball), and the Admirals (hockey). Wisconsin is also home to the Green Bay Packers football team which has largest following of any professional sports team in the state. Wisconsin is also home to various college sports programs, most notably the Wisconsin Badgers and the Marquette Golden Eagles.
Abortion in Wisconsin
Wisconsin has the 8th lowest abortion rate in the United States, and it has declined to a record low since 1974, the first year after Roe v. Wade:[6]
- There were 9,580 abortions done in the state in 2006, down from 9,817 in 2005. This is the third year in a row that abortions in the Midwestern state have decreased and the number is the lowest since 1974.
- "Wisconsin Right to Life is ecstatic that Wisconsin abortion numbers continue to decline," Barbara Lyons, the group's director, told LifeNews.com in a statement.
- "In addition, the abortion rate (which represents the number of abortions per 1000 women of childbearing age) remains at 8, which is one of the lowest abortion rates in the nation," Lyons added. The national abortion rate is about 15 per 1,000 women.
- In the statement, Wisconsin Right to Life[7] suggests that the abortions are on the decline because of its work and pro-life legislation the state has enacted and polls showing that younger Americans are more pro-life than previous generations. ...
- There are 14 abortions per 100 life births in Wisconsin, lower than the 24 per 100 live births nationwide.
- In 2006, there were 596 abortions on minors. Written consent (usually by a parent) was provided in 530 of these; the patient was an emancipated minor in 24; and a court granted a petition to waive the parental consent requirement in 42. There were no teens who got abortions after being victimized by sexual assault. ...
- Some 85 percent of the abortions were surgical and 15 percent involved abortion drugs, an increase of one percent over 2005.
References
- ↑ http://www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/scc/kids/facts.htm
- ↑ Lead Mining in Southwestern Wisconsin
- ↑ Belmont Wisconsin town website
- ↑ Belmont profile, idcide website.
- ↑ Milwaukee Sewer Socialism, Wisconsin State Historical Association
- ↑ Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com (Apr. 9, 2007) http://www.lifenews.com/state2218.html
- ↑ http://www.wisconsinrighttolife.org
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