Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced that as of December 28, 2023, it has resumed committing abortions at its locations in Milwaukee, Madison, and Sheboygan.
The abortion businesses had ceased committing abortions in June 2022 after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the previous 1973 ruling that had forced states to legalize abortion for nearly 50 years.
In September 2023, Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper, ruled that the state’s 1849 law that protected preborn children from abortion did not apply to abortion (initiated by the mother) but to feticide (an act of homicide against a fetus committed by someone other than the mother). That statute states: Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony. Schlipper said that this wording referred to someone attacking a pregnant woman and causing a miscarriage rather than to abortion.
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In December, Schlipper reaffirmed her ruling, allowing abortion businesses to resume operations in the state.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s Chief Strategy Officer Michelle Velasquez claimed, “Abortion bans and restrictions don’t make it so people don’t ever need abortions. They just make things, including pregnancy, riskier.” She admitted, “Our long term goals are to expand abortion access and services throughout the state of Wisconsin, but in order to do that we really have to focus on the laws.”
Abortion is never medically necessary and prohibiting abortion — the deliberate and intentional killing of a child in the womb — does not make pregnancy “riskier.” When a woman is facing a medical complication during pregnancy, doctors can deliver her baby through induced labor or emergency C-section in order to end the pregnancy. No doctor needs to intentionally kill the child prior to delivery in order to save the mother.
After the announcement that abortions would resume in Wisconsin, Pro-Life Wisconsin held a rally and prayer gathering outside the Sheboygan Planned Parenthood facility that coincided with the business’ reopening.
“Our hope is to attempt to open the hearts and minds of both abortion workers and pregnant mothers. Help us to keep the unborn alive and unharmed,” the group said on social media.
