MADISON, Wis, – On the fourth anniversary of the MAGA United States Supreme Court justices’ decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion care, Wisconsin Republicans at the federal, state, and local levels have not let up on their crusade to ban abortion in the Badger State.
“As we mark four years since the U.S. Supreme Court decision that set us back five decades in the fight for reproductive freedom, Wisconsin Republicans have only increased their efforts to ban abortion in Wisconsin, even in the face of undeniable proof that it goes against the values and safety of their constituents,” said Lucy Ripp, a spokesperson for A Better Wisconsin Together. “And some of them even have the audacity to ask Wisconsinites for a promotion this Fall.”
Like Republican Congressman, and now candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany.
Just weeks after the overturning of Roe v. Wade triggered abortion care to cease in Wisconsin under a law from the 1800s, Tiffany voted against a bipartisan bill that would have protected Wisconsinites’ right to seek abortion care elsewhere. Tiffany has also: co-sponsored a federal abortion ban in Congress and as a state legislator voted to ban abortion in Wisconsin without exceptions for rape or incest. Of this vote, he said in 2024 that it’s “a good place to be.”
Fond Du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, a MAGA Republican now seeking to be Wisconsin’s next attorney general, not only voiced support for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, he also indicated he would push to change state law to allow local district attorneys to cross county lines to prosecute abortion cases outside of their own jurisdiction.
Ripp noted that powerful Republican state legislators are also among Wisconsin’s far-right politicians trying to put themselves in charge of Wisconsinites’ reproductive healthcare decisions.
State Senator and Finance Committee Co-Chair Howard Marklein, for example, recently blocked a 2025 budget amendment that would have created a statutory right to abortion and protected infertility and IVF insurance coverage in Wisconsin. Marklein has also voted to use a law from 1849 to ban abortion.
“53 years after Roe v. Wade first became the law of the land, and now after 4 years without it, Wisconsin voters clearly want and deserve better than what we’re getting from Wisconsin Republicans,” Ripp said. “We urge all of our elected officials to listen to the will of the people and protect and expand abortion access in Wisconsin.”
