Tony Evers (D): Legal. Supports lifting restrictions on abortions. "Government shouldn't be making personal health decisions for women."
Scott Walker (R): Ban. "I've always been pro-life." Signed ban after with it morally?
Evers: No stand found.
Walker: Yes. Stopped enforcement of state's contraceptive coverage requirement for insurance companies.
Q: Let Planned Parenthood receive public funds for non-abortion health care?
Tony Evers (D): Legal. Supports lifting restrictions on abortions. "Government shouldn't be making personal health decisions for women & we shouldn't be treating physicians like criminals."
Scott Walker (R): Ban. "I've always been pro-life." Signed ban after 20 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. Required pre-abortion ultrasound.
Q: Allow employers to withhold contraceptive coverage from employees if disagree with it morally?
Evers: No stand found.
Walker: Yes. Stopped enforcement of state's contraceptive coverage requirement for insurance companies.
Q: Let Planned Parenthood receive public funds for non-abortion health care?
Evers: Yes. Reverse Walker's decision
Since the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade recognized a woman's constitutional right to an abortion in 1973, abortion has been legal. That includes Wisconsin. So, it's highly misleading to call abortion a crime in Wisconsin. And yet, Roys has a point.
In the ad, Roys says: "In Wisconsin, abortion is still a crime. And I can't believe that I'm having to fight the same fights that my grandmother fought."
Roys cited a Wisconsin law from 1849 which is still on the books. If Roe were overturned, regulating abortion would revert to the states, and the Wisconsin statute would again be in effect--although there are questions about whether it would be used immediately.
In sum, Roys' claim contains an element of truth, but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That's our definition of Mostly False
A: Oppose. A fetus is an alive, individual human being.
A: Strongly Support--Every woman has the right to safe and legal abortion services, family planning services, and reproductive health care.
OnTheissues note: Judge Rebecca Bradley had written in 1992 in the Marquette Tribune that supporters of abortion on demand (such as newly elected president Bill Clinton) were murderers. That and other decades-old anti-choice and anti-gay statements were a major issue in Bradley's 2016 judgeship race, which Bradley won.
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Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015: GA:Chambliss(R) IA:Harkin(D) MI:Levin(D) MT:Baucus(D) NE:Johanns(R) OK:Coburn(R) SD:Johnson(D) WV:Rockefeller(D) Resigned from 113th House: AL-1:Jo Bonner(R) FL-19:Trey Radel(R) LA-5:Rod Alexander(R) MA-5:Ed Markey(D) MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R) NC-12:Melvin Watt(D) SC-1:Tim Scott(R) |
Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R) GA-1:Jack Kingston(R) GA-10:Paul Broun(R) GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R) HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D) IA-1:Bruce Braley(D) LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R) ME-2:Mike Michaud(D) MI-14:Gary Peters(D) MT-0:Steve Daines(R) OK-5:James Lankford(R) PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D) TX-36:Steve Stockman(R) WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) |
Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R) AR-2:Tim Griffin(R) CA-11:George Miller(D) CA-25:Howard McKeon(R) CA-33:Henry Waxman(D) CA-45:John Campbell(R) IA-3:Tom Latham(R) MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R) NC-6:Howard Coble(R) NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D) NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R) NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D) NY-21:Bill Owens(D) PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R) UT-4:Jim Matheson(D) VA-8:Jim Moran(D) VA-10:Frank Wolf(R) | |
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