how much time should she do?

Anti-choice forces want to criminalize abortion. If they succeed, what will happen next?

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Key Messages

• Abortion is a personal decision, not a criminal act.
• If abortion is illegal, a woman who seeks one will be treated like a criminal and forced into a dangerous back-alley abortion.
• If abortion is illegal, rape victims could be sent to prison.
• How much time should she do?
• If abortion is illegal, a woman having an abortion could be a criminal. What is her punishment?
• Women and their doctors, not politicians, should make personal decisions about abortion.

Wisconsin's Criminal Abortion Law

DID YOU KNOW... Wisconsin is the only state that could send a woman to prison for having an abortion?  It's true. Wisconsin's criminal abortion statute from 1849 remains on the books even today.

This 160-year-old law (Wis. Stat 940.04) is so extreme that it imposes prison time on women who obtain an abortion, even if the woman is a victim of rape.

If Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and abortion becomes illegal again in Wisconsin, this extreme law would immediately go into effect.

And rape victims and doctors could be sent to prison for having or providing an abortion.

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Polling Data of Wisconsin Voters

• 70% of Wisconsin voters oppose a law that would prohibit all abortion in Wisconsin.
  _{May, 2010 Mellman poll of 600 likely Wisconsin voters.}