{"id":8468,"date":"2024-01-22T21:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:06:06","slug":"wisconsin-republicans-want-vote-on-14-week-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8468","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republicans Want Vote on 14-week Abortion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-want-vote-on-14-week-abortion-ban\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-want-vote-on-14-week-abortion-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wisconsin-150x150-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Parental Bill of Rights Outlaw Child Sex Dolls Embrace Them Both Unemployment Reforms Wisconsin\u2019s Professional Licensing Bail Reform Amendment wisconsin covid-19\" title=\"CNN\/UNH Poll\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin Republicans are pushing a plan to let voters weigh in on the state\u2019s abortion law.<\/p>\n<p>A group of lawmakers introduced a plan they hope will put a 14-week abortion ban on the spring ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I am personally pro-life, I know not everyone is,\u201d Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, said, \u201cIt\u2019s time we let the people of Wisconsin decide our laws regarding abortion and not leave it up to the whims of a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin currently allows abortions until 20 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchens said that a 14-week ban would still allow for most abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/legis.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=43f0fd160f1accbd327b79fe3&amp;id=961a2630cd&amp;e=41788898c3\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, 93% of abortions in the United States occur in the first trimester. However, many Democrats support abortion up to birth. Rep. Kitchens says that extreme position isn\u2019t shared by most voters,\u201d Kitchens said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, said a vote on a 14-week ban would allow the people of Wisconsin to balance legal abortion with the restrictions that most polls say voters want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of respect for how sensitive this issue is, we would like to hear directly from the voters whether they agree that this is what they want the law to be \u2013 striking a balance between protecting life and showing compassion and respect for women who find themselves in difficult situations,\u201d Felzkowski added.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get the 14-week ban on the ballot, Republican lawmakers would have to approve it in both the State Assembly and State Senate. Gov. Tony Evers would then have to sign it before voters would have their say.<\/p>\n<p>Evers has already vowed not to sign the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Republicans had their way, they&#8217;d ask Wisconsinites to strip themselves of some of the very reproductive freedoms that were only just recently restored,\u201d Evers said on social media on Sunday. \u201cI will not let Wisconsinites go back to the way the way things were a year ago, much less 50 years ago before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Roe?src=hashtag_click\">#Roe<\/a>. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-republicans-want-vote-on-14-week-abortion-ban\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin Republicans are pushing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}