{"id":256370,"date":"2021-11-01T06:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256370"},"modified":"2021-10-31T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:14:58","slug":"wisconsin-governor-veto-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wisconsin-governor-veto-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin governor expected to veto pro-life bills passed by assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wisconsin Assembly approved a package of pro-life bills on Wednesday, which now head to the desk of Governor Tony Evers who is likely to veto the legislation. The bills include the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, A Woman\u2019s Right to Know Act, the Prenatal Diagnosis Information Act, and the Shield the Vulnerable Act.<\/p>\n

Although the governor vetoed<\/a> a slew of similar bills two years ago, Republicans introduced the new legislation in hopes he would have a change of heart. Unfortunately, they do not have enough votes in the legislature to override a veto.<\/p>\n

The Born Alive Survivors Protection Act<\/a> would require physicians to attempt to preserve the life and health of a baby born alive following a failed abortion. Violators would face a felony charge, with a fine up to $10,000, and up to six years imprisonment. Anyone who intentionally kills the child following a failed abortion would face a felony charge and life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Governor Evers vetoed a similar bill in 2019, claiming<\/a> that abortion survivors are already protected, but this is incorrect. While intentionally killing a baby born alive after an abortion is prohibited under the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act passed by Congress in 2002, there is no legal penalty<\/em> for a doctor who leaves a baby to die following a failed abortion.<\/p>\n

READ: Planned Parenthood wants non-doctors to commit abortions in Wisconsin<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Woman\u2019s Right to Know Act<\/a> would require abortionists to tell women taking the abortion pill about the possibility of abortion pill reversal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chemical abortion is a two-step process that involves taking two drugs over the course of several days. The first drug is mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone, depriving the baby of nutrients. The second drug is misoprostol, which causes strong contractions, causing the mother to expel her dead child. Abortion pill reversal involves administering the FDA-approved hormone progesterone in an attempt to counteract the mifepristone’s blocking action.<\/p>\n