Scott Walker wades into the abortion issue, proclaims “Protect Life Day” in Wisconsin
Well, so much for the talk about Scott Walker not wanting to wade into sensitive social issues such as abortion…Walker just waded into the abortion issue with an official proclamation.
On the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision, Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker proclaimed January 22, 2013 as “Protect Life Day” in the State of Wisconsin. Walker is politically opposed to women having the right to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, even if the woman was raped or subjected to incest. Walker’s views on abortion are exactly the same as, if not more extreme than, those of Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who, while campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat in Indiana, said at a debate that he believed that pregnancies resulting from rape were “something God intended to happen.”
Scott Walker doesn’t like to talk about social issues, and there’s a reason for that. He is the governor of a state that twice gave Barack Obama, who is an ardent supporter of women’s reproductive rights, its presidential electoral votes.
As the 40th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to make their own decisions about their reproductive health approaches, Scott Walker proved once again that he doesn’t care about Wisconsin women.
Here’s the link to Walker’s signed proclaimation: http://wrtl.org/pdf/GovWalker_ProtectLifeDay.pdf
The proclamation reads:
“Whereas; 40 years have elapsed since the infamous January 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion for any reason for the full nine months of pregnancy in all of the United States; and
Whereas; it is the first and primary duty of government to protect its citizens, a role which the Court usurped from the states; and
Whereas; more than 55 million unborn children have expired from abortions nationally, a human rights abuse unprecedented in American history; and
Whereas; more than 540,000 of Wisconsin’s unborn children are lost to Wisconsin families, and their skills and talents are lost to the State of Wisconsin; and
Whereas; countless mothers, fathers, families, and society as a whole have suffered devastating consequences from this wholesale destruction of human life; and
Whereas; the future of our state and country depend on protection of the weakest members of the human family;
Now, therefore, I, Scott Walker, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, January 22, 2013, as
PROTECT LIFE DAY
throughout the state of Wisconsin and I commend this observance to all of our citizens.”
It was signed Jan. 7, 2013.
What I find interesting with the first paragraph is that Walker either tried to deliberately deceive folks or he is ignorant of abortion laws. A woman can only get an abortion for any reason during the first trimester. After that, then there has to be reasons like health risk for the mother or the child would be born without a heart or lungs. In the third trimester, it gets really difficult to get an abortion.
Also, that link you included is from the website of Wisconsin Right to Life, an anti-abortion interest group in Wisconsin, not an official Wisconsin state government website.