Charity Helps Rural Women Gain Access to Contraception

By Mary E. Medland

Set on the Wisconsin River, Wausau is clean, bright, and friendly, a town of 38,000 souls whose downtown is dotted with bookshops, a florist, an organic grocery store, and a restaurant called the Way Back Cafe. A park sits where the old courthouse used to be. Located about 100 miles from the city of Green Bay, 150 miles from Madison, and nearly 200 from Milwaukee, Wausau, settled in the mid-19th century, is surrounded by farms and dairies.

It is a place enmeshed in Midwestern