Anti-Choice Watch

Anti-choice extremists are working to take away women's personal, private medical decisions regarding their health, including not only abortion, but birth control, reproductive health care and sex education!

Politicians should not be telling doctors what medical procedures they can use to help save women's lives and protect their health. Women and their doctors should make that decision.

90% of Wisconsin voters support efforts to increase access to birth control, cervical cancer testing and reproductive health care. Yet here is what anti-choice legislators and organizations say about women's health...

Deb, an anti-choice extremist, in an email to a Planned Parenthood staff person
"I warn you...you are messing with God's plan for each little baby you kill or are a part of killing because of your involvement in PP. Believe me, when I say you will pay and pay big time! Remember God rules! Not you! I vote for life however God wills it."

Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin
"By outlawing contraception, you're closer to outlawing surgical abortion. So if, as the pro-life community, you're trying to outlaw surgical abortion but the court has told us its legal basis is founded on the necessity of abortion, shouldn't the pro-life community begin to take a look at contraception?"

Wisconsin Right to Life
"When the day comes that Roe v. Wade is overturned, Wisconsin will be one of the first states in the nation to once again protect unborn babies from abortion-as long as s. 940.04 remains in the statutes."

Representative Sheryl Albers (R-Reedsburg)
"Birth control for personal convenience is not medically necessary. We do not mandate coverage for massages, health spas, exercise programs, aspirin for minor headaches, or acupuncture--even though each makes our lives more comfortable and provides health benefits. As a society, we recognize these items as personal conveniences that each individual chooses to take advantage of or forego."

Sarah Palin
describes herself as "pro-life as any candidate can be"

Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend)
"Planned Parenthood, really I feel, is almost the most evil organization in our country right now."

Representative Daniel LeMahieu (R-Oostburg)
"I am outraged that our public institutions are giving young college women the tools for having promiscuous sexual relations...."
on UW-Madison students' access to emergency contraception

Representative Jim Ott (R-Mequon)
"The health of the mother is not an issue."
public testimony on the Abortion Procedures Ban bill