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Pro Life Wisconsin Press Release: May 16 2007 12:00AM
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
For immediate release
May 16, 2007
Contact: Matt Sande, Director of Legislation, cell: (262) 352-0890
or Marc Tuttle, Communications Director, (262) 796-1111
State Senate Votes to Force Wisconsin Hospitals
to Provide Chemical Abortion
Morning-after pill hospital mandate tramples conscience rights, says Pro-Life Wisconsin
Madison – The Wisconsin State Senate today voted in favor of legislation mandating that all Wisconsin hospitals, regardless of religious affiliation, inform an alleged victim of sexual assault about “emergency contraception” and provide it upon her request. Senate Bill (SB) 129, authored by Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson (D-Beloit), passed 27 to 6 with all eighteen Democrats and nine Republicans voting in favor of the bill.
“The Wisconsin Senate has shamefully ignored the fate of embryonic children by forcing Wisconsin hospitals to dispense a known abortion-causing drug to vulnerable women,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “In so doing, they have trampled upon the conscience rights of hospitals in blatant disregard of our federal and state constitutions which guarantee freedom of religious expression and liberty of conscience.”
Pro-Life Wisconsin’s primary opposition to SB 129 is based on the abortion-causing action of so-called “emergency contraception (EC),” also known as the morning-after pill. EC can work in three ways: to suppress ovulation; to inhibit the mobility of sperm, and to alter the lining of the uterus so that a newly conceived child is unable to implant in the womb, thus starving and dying. This last action is pre-implantation chemical abortion.
Pro-Life Wisconsin commended the six Republican legislators who voted against SB 129: Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan), Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn), and Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse).
“We applaud these legislators who courageously held firm to their pro-life convictions as well as to the strong pro-life platform overwhelmingly approved at the Republican Party’s state convention last weekend – a platform defending life from conception to natural death,” said Matt Sande, director of legislation for Pro-Life Wisconsin. “That nine of their fellow colleagues defied this platform in voting for SB 129 is cause for great frustration and concern in the pro-life community,” said Sande.
The nine Republican senators who voted in favor of SB 129 include: Carol Roessler (R-Oshkosh), Ted Kanavas (R-Brookfield), Michael Ellis (R-Neenah), Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay), Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls), Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center), Alan Lasee (R-De Pere) and Luther Olsen (R-Ripon).
Representing over 30,000 families across the state, Pro-Life Wisconsin will work to block SB 129 in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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May 16, 2007
Contact: Matt Sande, Director of Legislation, cell: (262) 352-0890
or Marc Tuttle, Communications Director, (262) 796-1111
to Provide Chemical Abortion
Morning-after pill hospital mandate tramples conscience rights, says Pro-Life Wisconsin
Madison – The Wisconsin State Senate today voted in favor of legislation mandating that all Wisconsin hospitals, regardless of religious affiliation, inform an alleged victim of sexual assault about “emergency contraception” and provide it upon her request. Senate Bill (SB) 129, authored by Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson (D-Beloit), passed 27 to 6 with all eighteen Democrats and nine Republicans voting in favor of the bill.
“The Wisconsin Senate has shamefully ignored the fate of embryonic children by forcing Wisconsin hospitals to dispense a known abortion-causing drug to vulnerable women,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “In so doing, they have trampled upon the conscience rights of hospitals in blatant disregard of our federal and state constitutions which guarantee freedom of religious expression and liberty of conscience.”
Pro-Life Wisconsin’s primary opposition to SB 129 is based on the abortion-causing action of so-called “emergency contraception (EC),” also known as the morning-after pill. EC can work in three ways: to suppress ovulation; to inhibit the mobility of sperm, and to alter the lining of the uterus so that a newly conceived child is unable to implant in the womb, thus starving and dying. This last action is pre-implantation chemical abortion.
Pro-Life Wisconsin commended the six Republican legislators who voted against SB 129: Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan), Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn), and Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse).
“We applaud these legislators who courageously held firm to their pro-life convictions as well as to the strong pro-life platform overwhelmingly approved at the Republican Party’s state convention last weekend – a platform defending life from conception to natural death,” said Matt Sande, director of legislation for Pro-Life Wisconsin. “That nine of their fellow colleagues defied this platform in voting for SB 129 is cause for great frustration and concern in the pro-life community,” said Sande.
The nine Republican senators who voted in favor of SB 129 include: Carol Roessler (R-Oshkosh), Ted Kanavas (R-Brookfield), Michael Ellis (R-Neenah), Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay), Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls), Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center), Alan Lasee (R-De Pere) and Luther Olsen (R-Ripon).
Representing over 30,000 families across the state, Pro-Life Wisconsin will work to block SB 129 in the Wisconsin State Assembly.