{"id":662,"date":"2022-03-24T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=662"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:17:06","slug":"preparing-for-a-post-roe-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for a Post-Roe World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolifewi.org\/blog\/2022\/3\/24\/preparing-for-a-post-roe-world\">https:\/\/www.prolifewi.org\/blog\/2022\/3\/24\/preparing-for-a-post-roe-world<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PREPARING FOR A POST-<em>ROE<\/em>  WORLD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"\"><em>By Dan Miller, Pro-Life Wisconsin State Director  <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Will we be living in a post-<em>Roe<\/em> world come June of 2022? Will the fall of <em>Roe<\/em> mean the end of abortion in Wisconsin? \u00a0Everyone is talking about it.\u00a0 Pro-Life Wisconsin is doing something about it.\u00a0We absolutely must amend our state constitution.\u00a0 The problem lies in the declaration of rights:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cAll people are BORN equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019m no lawyer, but even I can see a problem with this.\u00a0 The Wisconsin Constitution says you must be BORN to be equally free and independent, and you must be BORN to enjoy fundamental rights, including the precious right to life!\u00a0 If you don\u2019t think a left leaning state supreme court would declare abortion a constitutional right in Wisconsin, and thus nullify all our pro-life laws, you would be wrong.\u00a0 It has already happened in Iowa and Kansas.\u00a0 We need to be proactive in Wisconsin when dealing with the first and most important right \u2013 LIFE.\u00a0 We must enshrine equal protection for our preborn brothers and sisters in our state\u2019s highest law. Please learn about our Wisconsin Personhood Amendment by going to our website at ProLifeWI.org\/personhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We also have a pro-life statute, s.940.04, on our books, but it has been dormant under <em>Roe.<\/em>\u00a0 Could it be used to prosecute illegal abortions in Wisconsin? The sad truth is that the law is only as good as our elected officials.\u00a0 In a press conference as recent as December 14, 2021, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul stated that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cEven if courts were to interpret that law as being enforceable, as attorney general I would not use the resources of the Wisconsin Department of Justice either to investigate alleged violations of that abortion ban or to prosecute alleged violations of it.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes, you heard that right! Elections have consequences, folks! Anyone who is hanging their hat on having s.940.04 decide the fate of preborn babies in Wisconsin should <em>Roe<\/em> fall may be sorely mistaken if county district attorneys refuse to enforce it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some legal minds believe that should s.940.04 be challenged, it would be interpreted as a feticide statute only, not an abortion statute. See <em>State of Wisconsin v. Glenndale Black<\/em>.\u00a0 Moreover, s.940.04 contains a massive loophole \u2013 a broad and undefined life-of-the-mother exception \u2013 that could make it largely ineffective in banning abortion. Anyone could get a \u201ctherapeutic abortion\u201d as the statute sits with this glaring exception.\u00a0 When have you ever known an abortion to be therapeutic for the baby?\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 Never. We will work hard to close this loophole and enact a total protection statutory abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Please pray that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is fully overturned, and please pray for Pro-Life Wisconsin as we lead the fight to ban abortion without exception in our state statutes and work to enshrine the right to life in our Wisconsin Constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.prolifewi.org\/blog\/2022\/3\/24\/preparing-for-a-post-roe-world PREPARING FOR A POST-ROE WORLD By Dan Miller, Pro-Life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}