MADISON, Wis. — A media report on recent polling indicates that a strong majority of registered voters in the Badger State (74%) support abortion access and believe that decisions on abortion should be made by individual patients in consultation with their doctor – not politicians. The survey also shows that Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly (69%) support Planned Parenthood.
“This is yet another example of Wisconsinites’ overwhelming support for protecting and expanding abortion access, at a time when Wisconsin Republicans continue to do the opposite,” said Lucy Ripp, communications director at A Better Wisconsin Together.
On the heels of Wisconsin Republicans officially endorsing a near-total abortion ban and voting to cut Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood at the federal level, these new survey results are further confirmation that Wisconsin’s GOP lawmakers are wildly out of touch with their constituents when it comes to reproductive healthcare.
“From officially endorsing an archaic 1800s law to ban abortion and threaten doctors and nurses with criminal charges for providing care, to gutting healthcare access and attacking Planned Parenthood – a provider that Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support and rely on for quality healthcare access – Wisconsin voters clearly want, and deserve, better than what we’re getting from Wisconsin Republicans,” Ripp said.
As the Trump Administration and national Republicans slash medical research, push to take healthcare coverage away from thousands of Wisconsinites, and threaten to defund essential providers like Planned Parenthood, Wisconsin Republicans must do the right thing, listen to what their constituents are telling them, and join their Democratic colleagues in supporting legislation like the Abortion Rights Restoration Act and expanding affordable healthcare access in our upcoming state and federal budgets.
“Wisconsinites have once again made it clear that they overwhelmingly want safe and legal abortion access across the state,” Ripp said. “The time is now to protect and expand abortion access in Wisconsin.”
