Wisconsin Pro-Aborts Take Aim at State Abortion Law 

By Dave Andrusko, editor, National Right to Life News. Please send your thoughts to daveandrusko@hotmail.com

Although the immediate application is to Wisconsin, a public hearing scheduled for next Wednesday at the state capitol of Madison is of concern to pro-lifers nationwide. I'm referring to SB 398, a bill to repeal Wisconsin's abortion ban, s.940.04.

In a second, I will explain why it is important that pro-life Wisconsinites attend the February 27 hearing at noon in Room 411 South-- not just to them, but to all of us. We need to keep in mind that Planned Parenthood types will be represented by many supporters of the repeal measure.

It is likely that floor action in the state Senate will take place sometime after the public hearing and before the legislature adjourns March 13. 

So, why is this repeal effort (clones of which no doubt will pop up elsewhere) important? Pro-abortionists already have Roe v. Wade and assorted follow-up Supreme Court decisions.

Why bother to repeal the 150-year-old Wisconsin abortion law that prohibits abortions except when the mother's life is in danger? As long as Roe stands, no state law can be enforced.

To ask the question is to answer it. Once Roe is tossed into the ashcan of history, the battle over the shape of abortion law returns to the legislative branch. 

Pro-abortionists fully understand that "Should Roe v. Wade be repealed, Wisconsin would be one of four states to immediately outlaw abortion," as the authors of the drive to repeal the statute have written. "This repeal is especially important now as forces work to outlaw certain abortion procedures with the goal of outlawing all abortions."  

True to form pro-abortion legislators both mislabel the bill --dubbing it the "Women's Health and Safety Act"-- and out-and-out lie about its impact--saying that women who have abortions will go to jail if abortion is outlawed.

The latter assertion is particularly egregious, even by pro-abortion standards. In 1985, the Wisconsin legislature enacted a provision that would make only the abortionist the criminal, not the woman.  

Wisconsin RTL has reminded its members that the organization "has been alerting pro-life people all over the state for two years that this alarming and devastating legislation would be attempted by Planned Parenthood and its allies."

But the threat is no longer theoretical.  It is now a reality.

You can help save a minimum of 9,500 human lives each year in Wisconsin by working with Wisconsin Right to Life to save s.940.04.

Please alert your pro-life friends, family, and colleagues to be at the state capitol Wednesday, February 27, at noon.