Tomorrow, Tuesday April 1, voters throughout Wisconsin will go to the polls to elect a State Supreme Court justice who will serve a 10 year term. Voters in Milwaukee County will decide whether to re-elect pro-life County Executive Scott Walker or elect pro-abortion State Sen. Lena Taylor.
The Wisconsin Right to Life Political Action Committee urges you to vote for Judge Michael Gableman for State Supreme Court and County Executive Scott Walker for Milwaukee County Executive.
State Supreme Court Race: Judge Michael Gableman is challenging pro-abortion Louis Butler. Butler was appointed to the court by pro-abortion Governor Jim Doyle.
Butler has outrageously voted to overturn laws that the state legislature passed and that the people of Wisconsin support. Given Butler’s history of overruling the will of the people and his pro-abortion philosophy, all right to life voters should be gravely concerned about how Butler would vote if life-saving right to life laws are challenged in court!
On the other hand, Judge Michael Gableman deeply respects the will of the people and believes it is the legislature - not the courts - that should be making law. Judge Gableman’s judicial philosophy is one that bodes well for the right to life cause.
Milwaukee County Executive Race: Pro-life Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is being challenged by radically pro-abortion State Sen. Lena Taylor. Taylor’s voting record on right to life issues is a dismal 12%!.
County Executive Walker served in the State Assembly before being elected to his current position. Scott Walker was a dynamic leader for the right to life cause during his tenure in the State Assembly.
Your vote for Judge Michael Gableman and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is crucial! Please vote tomorrow, Tuesday April 1.
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In 2004, our state legislature passed the Wisconsin Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation that requires hospitals to provide appropriate medical care to babies who are born alive after an abortion attempt. The legislation passed unanimously in the Assembly and by a vote of 31 to 1 in the State Senate. It was signed into law by pro-abortion Gov. Jim Doyle.
When the legislation was first introduced, pro-abortion organizations and their allies in the legislature tried to come up with a rationale to oppose it. But they couldn’t come up with one single argument that didn’t make them look like complete monsters. After all, these are living, breathing babies who are completely delivered from their mothers and have taken their first breath. . . making them “legal persons” under Wisconsin law.
Then when medical professionals testified how these tiny abortion survivors are often treated in our nation’s hospitals (thrown in the garbage or left on shelves in supply rooms until they die), some of the most ardent pro-abortion lawmakers were actually moved by what they heard and realized the issue was no longer abortion, it was infanticide.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama heard the same kind of gripping testimony while serving in the Illinois legislature but he voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act. . . twice! And then in 2003 as Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, he prevented the bill from advancing to the floor for a vote by the full senate.
Patrick Mcllheran’s excellent piece in the Journal Sentinel this week exposes the outrageous track record of State Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler while on the court. It is a track record of unbridled judicial activism! Yet, Butler actually tries to compare his judicial philosophy with that of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia! Scalia, of course, believes in judicial restraint and in the role of legislatures - not courts - to make laws.
Others have researched and exposed the “real” Butler as well. It is clear Butler has no problem in overturning laws enacted by the state legislature which reflect the will of the people. Doesn’t sound very Scalia-like, does it?
Oh, and Butler is pro-abortion too!
All of this has me worried … worried about the damage pro-abortion Butler could do to Wisconsin’s right-to-life laws. Laws like requiring parental consent prior to a minor’s abortion, protecting unborn babies when Roe v. Wade is overturned, protecting tax-payers from paying for abortions, and lots of others.
Thank God there is a great alternative to pro-abortion Butler in Judge Michael Gableman. Judge Gableman has been enthusiastically endorsed by our PAC, the Wisconsin Right to Life Political Action Committee. Judge Gableman’s judicial philosophy is one that actually respects the rightful role of the legislature in enacting laws. And he strongly believes the role of the judiciary should be limited to interpreting laws. Now, that’s Scalia-like!
Michael Gableman’s judicial philosophy is one that bodes well for the right-to-life movement. Butler? A disaster in waiting!
We hear it over and over — the media is “in the tank” for Obama. It takes on real meaning when you experience it firsthand.
A few weeks ago, I did an in-studio interview with a Wisconsin talk show host who will go unnamed. My purpose here is not to embarrass this individual but to give you insight into how the media automatically “protect” Obama.
I was contrasting the abortion positions of Clinton/Obama and McCain and mentioned, as I did in yesterday’s blog, that as an Illinois senator Obama even voted against a measure which would protect babies who survive abortion attempts.
A look of surprise came over the interviewer’s face. He said that Obama’s vote was likely a procedural vote. The surprise was then mine because the interviewer conjured up out of thin air a procedural vote which did not exist.
Undaunted, I repeated that Obama voted against a bill that would protect babies who survive abortion attempts. Again, the interviewer refused to let it stand and said (thinking he would get the last word in before a break in the show) that Obama’s vote was procedural.
Well, I thrive on getting in the last word on radio shows. I told the interviewer he was being “unnecessarily kind” to Obama and that the vote was a substantive, not a procedural, vote — that Obama did not even want to protect babies who survive abortion attempts. Break!
In reality, I was the one being unnecessarily kind. Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act not once, but twice. Then, in 2003 as Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, he prevented the bill from advancing to the floor for a vote by the full senate.
Obama fully believes by his actions that the “right” to an abortion is the “right” to a dead baby.
And, now you have another example of the media being “in the tank” for Obama.
Yesterday, I wrote about the “no contest” contrast on picking the next U.S. Supreme Court nominees depending on who is elected president.
Elect Obama or Clinton — you get justices like Souter and Breyer.
Elect McCain — you get justices like Roberts and Alito.
This is a no brainer!
But, what about all of the other right-to-life issues that face the Congress and president? It would be hard to find two individuals more committed to the destruction of human life than Obama and Clinton. There simply isn’t a single unborn child that either would protect. Obama even refused to support legislation in Illinois that would protect babies who survive abortion attempts!
Here is what you can expect from Obama or Clinton:
Taxpayer funding of abortion on demand and rationed health care (through either the Obama or Clinton health care plans)
Federal funding of abortions overseas, in military hospitals
Full federal funding to destroy human embryos
Mandated medical services with no conscience protections
Freedom of Choice Act which would mandate abortion on demand in every state and reverse state laws such as parental consent prior to a minor girl’s abortion
Hundreds of federal court appointments of individuals who want to legislate from the bench
This is a watershed year for the protection of human life. For vulnerable people whose lives are at risk, so much rides on who occupies the White House.
Can it get any worse? While Senators Clinton and Obama engage in a slugfest (through their “operatives,” of course), McCain climbs in stature and in the polls. It is a long time until November 4, however.
Of course, the presidential election is vital to right-to-life interests. It’s all about justices, justices and justices. That would be U.S. Supreme Court justices.
In January of 2009, six of the nine Supremes will be 70 or older. It’s hard to construct a scenario where the next president makes NO appointments to the high court. We all know what either Clinton or Obama will do. They will require any nominees to sign in blood that they will uphold Roe v Wade until their last breath. Justices like Souter and Breyer. What a disaster for unborn children who will be relegated to non-human status for decades to come under this scheme.
Wisconsin Right to Life PAC has not endorsed a presidential candidate as yet. We are, however, making the contrast between fanatical pro-abortionists — Clinton and Obama – and McCain who has a solid right-to-life voting record and has stated on numerous occasions that his picks for the high court will be individuals like Roberts and Alito.
What a contrast in views and philosophy! Stay tuned for further developments.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is one of the state’s most respected public officials. And he’s solidly pro-life!
Prior to his election as county executive, Scott Walker served in the State Assembly where he held a number of leadership positions and was a dynamic leader for the right to life cause.
Challenging Scott Walker is radically pro-abortion State Senator Lena Taylor, whose voting record on right-to-life issues is an abysmal 12%!
We hope this information will be helpful when you vote on April 1.
There are lots of reasons voters would want to reject sending Justice Louis Butler back to the State Supreme Court. Since being appointed to the court by pro-abortion Gov. Jim Doyle, Butler has shown that he doesn’t think much of a little thing called “the will of the people.”
Remember that state constitutional amendment the voters overwhelmingly passed to restrict gaming in Wisconsin? Butler not only voted to overturn the restriction on gaming but he actually authored the opinion!
You may be asking, what does this have to do with right-to-life issues? Well, a lot, really. Butler has made no secret of that fact that he is pro-abortion. Combine that with his complete disregard for the will of the people and we have to ask, will Louis Butler also vote to overturn Wisconsin’s crucial right-to-life laws? Laws like requiring parental consent prior to a minor’s abortion; protecting unborn children when Roe v. Wade is overturned; prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for most abortions and many more.
Do we want to entrust the lives of babies and other vulnerable people to a pro-abortion justice who has thumbed his nose at the legislative process and the will of the people?
We found these recent comments from Gary Bauer at American Values worth sharing with you…
In Great Britain recently, Emma Beck, a talented young artist, committed suicide after aborting her twins. A suicide note she left behind read: “I should never have had an abortion. …I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies, they need me, no-one else does.”
Beck’s tragedy highlights the growing body of empirical research suggesting a causal link between abortion and psychological problems. That research helped inform a recently-released report by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Great Britain that concluded that women should not be allowed to undergo abortions until they have been informed of the possible risk to their mental health.
This is an interesting development given that abortion advocates in America have long insisted that any pro-life legislation contain an exemption for a woman’s “health,” which the courts have broadly interpreted to include “mental health.” It is a legal lopphole that effectively guts meaningful pro-life bills. But it is also an acknowledgment that induced abortion is not a natural consequence of pregnancy. Killing her unborn child goes against a mother’s natural instincts. It stands to reason that there would be psychological consequences, and a compassionate society should recognize that and reach out to these women. Instead, the pro-abortion Left callously tells women to deny their pain and to celebrate their “choice.”
It is encouraging that Britain is having an open and honest discussion that is badly needed in the U.S. too. Attempts to fairly debate post abortion stress syndrome and depression have been thwarted in America for too long. Hopefully, this British study will reinvigorate the debate.
The 2007-08 legislative session is over and Wisconsin’s abortion ban – s. 940.04 – is still on the lawbooks! In spite of the efforts of pro-abortion organizations and their allies in the legislature, we prevailed – together! The bill to repeal 940.04 is dead!
Pro-abortion and middle-of-the-road legislators were scared to death to take a vote on whether 940.04 should be repealed. Those legislators saw the outpouring of support for 940.04 from Wisconsin citzens and they could not ignore it! They saw the over 500 people who had traveled to Madison to testify in favor of keeping s.940.04 on the lawbooks. Those legislators were the ones who received the phone calls, letters and e-mail messages that had been sent by thousands of people across the state in support of saving 940.04. And in the end, it was those pro-abortion and middle-of-the-road legislators who decided it was not in their political interest to be on record as voting to repeal 940.04.
It’s called the power of the people. The people (you) told the legislature in no uncertain terms to keep 940.04 on the lawbooks so that unborn babies will be protected when Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Thank you, friends, for flexing your political muscle on behalf of the babies!
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