Collective bargaining and public employee benefits–these were the  issues that  ignited a flurry of recall elections our state.  You will remember that several state Senators were targeted in recall elections last summer.  And now, our governor, lieutenant governor and four more state Senators currently face a second round of recall attempts.

Why is Wisconsin Right to Life, a single-issue organization, actively involved? Each of the targeted public officials is strongly pro-life and their opponents are pro-abortion to the core!

Thus while Wisconsin Right to Life takes no position on collective bargaining or public employee benefits, we have been, and will continue to be, actively involved in the recall elections. The stakes for unborn children in these recall elections are extremely high.

Last Tuesday, the recall primary elections were held and our courageous right-to-life Governor Scott Walker was able to turn out massive numbers of his supporters even though he had only token opposition in the Republican primary.

By contrast there was a highly contested Democratic primary with four candidates.  The frontrunners were Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and former Dane County Executive and union favorite Kathleen Falk. (There were two other, much weaker candidates.)   In spite of massive union spending on behalf of Falk, Barrett emerged victorious.

The gubernatorial general recall election will be held on June 5 when Governor Walker will once again face pro-abortion Tom Barrett, as he did in 2010.

There was never any doubt that Gov. Walker would handily beat his unknown primary opponent and he did so by a whopping margin of 97% to 3%.  But what was surprising–and very hopeful–was the number of Walker supporters who voted in the primary.

Christian Schneider, senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, did an analysis of the numbers and pointed out that in a primary in which Walker ran essentially unopposed, he garnered 15,000 more votes than Falk and Barrett combined. “Republican voters had absolutely nothing to vote for, and yet they turned out in droves to send a message,” he wrote.

Last week's voting results buoyed the right-to-life community throughout the state because it demonstrated the extent of the passionate support for our great and courageous governor Scott Walker.  But there is still the June 5 recall general election  to contend with. That election will determine once and for all whether Wisconsin will be led by a governor who cares deeply about the sanctity of all human life or by one that has consistently shown a blatant disregard for the lives of the most vulnerable members of the human family.

It will be a hard fought fight. It may have begun as a battle over collective bargaining and public employee benefits, but the stakes for unborn children and other vulnerable people in our state could not be higher!

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Abortion Funding:  As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted against taxpayer funding of abortions for public employees. As Governor, Walker signed into law a state budget with a provision to prohibit the UW Hospital Authority from being involved in performing abortions and from using taxpayer dollars to pay medical students to learn to perform abortions. Also as Governor, Walker signed into law legislation allowing Wisconsin to opt-out of taxpayer-funded abortion coverage under ObamaCare.

Funding Abortion Providers:  As an Assembly Representative Walker voted to prohibit taxpayer dollars from going to organizations that provide or promote abortions.  As Governor, Walker signed into law a state budget with a provision to prohibit Title V taxpayer dollars from going to organizations that perform abortions.  Also as Governor, Walker steered Wisconsin Well Woman funds to local counties instead of Planned Parenthood.

Protecting Unborn Children:  As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted to recognize an unborn child as a separate victim of a criminal act against the pregnant mother, to prohibit partial-birth abortions, and to protect unborn children at risk due to drug or alcohol use by the mother.

Protecting Families:  As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted to strengthen Wisconsin’s law requiring parental consent before a minor’s abortion. As Governor, Walker signed into law legislation returning sex education curriculum to local control and allowing abstinence-only programs.

Protecting Women:  As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted for the Woman’s Right to Know Act which requires that women be given full
information prior to an abortion and establishes a 24-hour waiting period. As Governor, Walker signed into law legislation to protect women from
coerced abortions and to prohibit unsafe RU 486 chemical web cam abortions designed to expand abortions into local communities.

Alternatives to Abortion: As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted for tax exemptions related to adoption expenses, to improve adoption laws, to expand funding for adoption assistance for children at risk of developing disabilities, and for a provision to allow a woman and her unborn child to be considered as a family eligible for BadgerCare.

Conscience Protections: As an Assembly Representative, Walker authored legislation to strengthen conscience protections for medical professionals and institutions.

Other: As an Assembly Representative, Walker voted in favor of legislation to prohibit lawsuits based on the “wrongful” life of an unborn child, and to prohibit the sale of body parts of aborted babies.

You may wish to download and share a PDF of this information, which can be found here: http://www.wrtl.org/pdf/WalkerRecordOnLifePAC.pdf

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Authorized and paid for by the Wisconsin Right to Life Political Action Committee, Richard Fox, Treasurer. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. The committee is the sole source of this communication and the committee did not act in cooperation or consultation with, and in concert with, or at the request or suggestion of any candidate or any agent or authorized committee of a candidate who is supported or opposed by this communication.

 

 

Beyond the recall election for governor, there are also four extremely important State Senate recall elections that will also take place on Tuesday, June 5.  

 

 

The re-election of Senators Fitzgerald, Wanggaard and Moulton and the election of Representative Petrowski to the State Senate are crucial to the right-to-life cause in Wisconsin. Each of these exceptional public servants has a deep, personal commitment to protecting the most vulnerable members of the human family and have maintained outstanding right-to-life voting records.  Fitzgerald, Wanggaard, Moulton and Petrowski have been enthusiastically endorsed by the Wisconsin Right to Life Political Action Committee.

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The most pro-abortion administration ever has released rules on registering, for security purposes, “a baby that has not yet been born.”  What irony.   The Director of the White House Visitor’s Office, Ellie Shafer, sent an email to a number of recipients including the Members of Congress detailing how to register such a child who is present for a White House tour.   “Crazy as it may sound, you MUST include the baby in the overall count of guests in the tour,” says Shafer.   Crazy — yes — for an administration that has yet to contemplate an abortion it would prohibit.

Shafer explains further  that “the baby’s security information should be entered” in the the White House system, including details such as “GENDER:  if the parents know put that gender down, if not, you can enter either M or F as we’ll ask you to update it at the time of birth.”    The information should be updated “once the baby is born,” the instructions say.

Doug Johnson, Legislative Director of National Right to Life says:  “Notably, the newsletter provides no guidance on what the staff should do if an unborn baby is first registered for security purposes, but then aborted.”   Registration of a baby — Yes.   Abortion of a baby– OK.  Another example of the administration’s hypocrisy on abortion.

 

 

by Carol Tobias, President,  National Right to Life Committee

In an exclusive interview with the Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff released tonight, NARAL President Nancy Keenan announced that she would be stepping down from her post at the end of the year.

Kliff writes in her story:

“In recent years, Keenan has worried about an ‘intensity gap’ on abortion rights among millennials, which the group considers to be the generation of Americans born between 1980 and 1991. While most young, antiabortion voters see abortion as a crucial political issue, NARAL’s own internal research does not find similar passion among abortion-rights supporters.”

In other words, Nancy Keenan’s conclusion is something we have known for years: the post-Roe generations are pro-life – and more passionately so than their parents’ generations and their pro-abortion, post-Roe counterparts.

We know from Gallup that 61% of the country believes abortion should be illegal in all circumstances or legal only in a few circumstances. We know from Gallup that 45% of the country self-identifies as pro-life. We know from Gallup that 51% of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong. And we know that when those questions are asked of the post¬-Roe generation, the numbers tend to skew higher.

More important, I know that none of this would even be possible without you and the work you do with National Right to Life and our nationwide network of state affiliates and local chapters. Every day you are educating your communities, touching hearts and changing minds. Every day, you are helping us make a difference for the most defenseless members of our society.

Look back to 2003 when the New York Times Magazine quoted David J. Garrow, a hard-core pro-abortion “legal historian” at Emory University, as stating, “There’s been so much media attention over the last seven to eight years on partial-birth abortion, we shouldn’t be surprised that some of it has had an effect on 12-to-14-year-olds, and it is a public relations coup for the National Right to Life Committee.”

The other side has noticed. And they’re “worried.”

Keep up the great work. Together we will win…for their lives.