While the Medicaid reimbursement bill language addresses abortion providers in general, bill author Sen. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, acknowledged it would specifically affect Planned Parenthood.

Under the bill, family planning clinics could only bill Medicaid for the actual acquisition cost plus a dispensing fee for prescription drugs obtained through Medicaid's 340B program.

"This is a consistent stance with where I have always been, where many others in this body have always been, and that is, we are going to protect life," Kapenga said. "I believe that that begins at conception, and I believe that one of the cornerstones of the Declaration of Independence and what our Constitution is drafted around is the protection of life."

Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, argued the bills aren't about protection of life, but rather about passing a vindictive agenda.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said the Medicaid bill isn't about abortion at all; rather, it's about saying it's OK for other entities to be reimbursed for dispensing birth control, but not for Planned Parenthood to receive the same reimbursement.