{"id":44933,"date":"2014-01-07T23:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=44933"},"modified":"2014-01-08T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:57:21","slug":"wisconsins-senate-gop-leaders-latest-excuse-for-abandoning-pro-life-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wisconsins-senate-gop-leaders-latest-excuse-for-abandoning-pro-life-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin&#8217;s Senate GOP Leader&#8217;s latest excuse for abandoning pro-life bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44934\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"Scott Fitzgerald\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Scott-Fitzgerald-160x300.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"300\" \/>Back in November, we <a href=\"\/news\/are-wisconsin-gop-leaders-chickening-out-on-pro-life-laws-too\/\">discussed<\/a> troubling signs that Wisconsin Republican leaders were angling to ditch two pieces of pro-life legislation for fear that the state\u2019s abortion champions would blow a gasket over them. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald attempted to reassure pro-lifers that the bills (banning sex-selection abortions and protecting against involuntarily subsidizing abortion) just needed some fine-tuning, after which Republicans would bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it now looks like Fitzgerald is already trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshfieldnewsherald.com\/viewart\/20131231\/MNH0101\/131231017\/Wis-Senate-unlikely-vote-abortion-bills-\">weasel out<\/a> of that New Year\u2019s resolution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The leader of the Wisconsin Senate said votes are unlikely next year on two anti-abortion bills that were originally scheduled to be taken up in November but hastily pulled after a Democratic senator [Jon Erpenbach] promised &#8220;all out hell&#8221; if they were debated.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he didn&#8217;t know if there was enough support among Republicans to bring the bills back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know there&#8217;s some concern that some of the bills are passing and are tied up in court and never take effect and we&#8217;re just spinning our wheels,&#8221; Fitzgerald told The Associated Press. &#8220;I want to make sure we do it right.&#8221; [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where the support is to bring those bills back at this time,&#8221; Fitzgerald told the AP Friday. He said he wanted to talk individually with lawmakers to see where they stand on them. Republicans can only lose one vote and still have enough to pass a bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me help you out with a few things, Senator. The surest way to know a bill will \u201cnever take effect\u201d is if you never try to enact it in the first place. Regarding your fellow Republicans, the correct answer to \u201cwhere they stand on them\u201d is \u201cit had damn well better be unequivocal support,\u201d considering that fighting abortion is one of their own party\u2019s core tenets, and it is fully within the majority\u2019s power to enact them. And as Brian Sikma at Media Trackers <a href=\"http:\/\/mediatrackers.org\/wisconsin\/2014\/01\/02\/wisconsin-senate-leader-ready-abort-pro-life-bills\">points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even Sen. Dale Schultz, a moderate Republican who regularly breaks ranks with the GOP caucus on big issues, has signed on as a co-author to the bill that prohibits taxpayer money from paying for abortions through government worker health insurance. Schultz\u2019s support of the bill would appear to mollify Fitzgerald\u2019s worry that he doesn&#8217;t have enough votes in his caucus to pass the legislation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what\u2019s the main reason we should \u201cknow where the support is to bring those bills back\u201d? Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisn.com\/politics\/upfront\/upfront-fitzgerald-says-time-is-right-to-work-on-tough-abortion-bills-in-wis\/-\/10057538\/22916552\/-\/yw4letz\/-\/index.html\">you told us<\/a> when these fears originally surfaced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This session is the right time to work on \u201ctough\u201d abortion bills, says GOP Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a pro-life majority in the state Senate right now, and because of that there\u2019s always a willingness to work on that type of legislation,\u201d Fitzgerald told \u201cUpFront with Mike Gousha,\u201d produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. Republicans also control the Assembly and the governor&#8217;s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretending to be at the mercy of one\u2019s own senators would be suspicious enough, but to do so after another suspicious excuse, which was mitigated only by a promise that delay was strictly so the legislation could come back as strong as possible now, is classic politispeak for \u201cgo away because I just don\u2019t want to deal with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin has seen a number of pro-life victories in recent years, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prolifewisconsin.org\/NewsMore.asp?article=Pro-Life+Wisconsin+thanks+Governor+Walker+for+signing+pro-life+bills&amp;aid=427&amp;id=14#topNews\">legislation<\/a> banning webcam abortions, keeping abortion coverage out of the state\u2019s ObamaCare exchange, protecting school district\u2019s right to teach abstinence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/07\/05\/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-signs-bill-for-ultrasound-before-abortion\/\">requiring<\/a> abortion-seekers to obtain ultrasounds, and <a href=\"\/news\/seventh-circuit-puts-wisconsin-law-requiring-admitting-privileges-for-abortionists-on-hold\/\">imposing<\/a> admitting privilege requirements on abortionists (though the last one is tied up in court). Reductions in state subsidies have helped <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-of-wisconsin-to-close-four-clinics\/\">close<\/a> four Planned Parenthood locations, and the state\u2019s abortion rate is <a href=\"\/news\/reported-induced-abortions-wisconsin-continue-decrease\/\">dropping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so far, the public approves. A November poll conducted for Wisconsin Right to Life by Public Opinion Strategies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/11\/11\/wisconsin-poll-shows-majority-of-residents-strongly-pro-life-on-abortion\/\">found<\/a> that support for generally banning abortion beats support for generally elective abortion 55% to 45%, and that Wisconsinites back ultrasound requirements 47% to 46%, admitting privileges requirements 58% to 31%, and 20-week bans 51% to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that those numbers don\u2019t necessarily reflect how well support would withstand a prolonged scare campaign, but GOP state Sen. Glenn Grothman, who sponsored the conscience bill, demonstrates the simple answer to that &#8211; go on the offensive, and keep the extremism charge in the opposition\u2019s court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sure that Jon Erpenbach and his fellow extremists would filibuster these bills as long as possible to make sure as many little girls are aborted as possible and some Republicans do not want to wait through these filibusters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I don\u2019t think framing and explaining the issue favorably is too much for his colleagues to grasp, but then, I\u2019m operating from the premise that something more than vote-grabbing lip service should actually be done about abortion. If Scott Fitzgerald wants to convince pro-lifers he\u2019s operating from the same premise, his first two strikes at bat haven\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, we discussed troubling signs that Wisconsin Republican leaders were angling to ditch two pieces of pro-life legislation for fear that the state\u2019s abortion champions would blow a gasket over them. 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