Action Alert: Public Hearing on SB 260 and SB 261

ACTION ALERT: PUBLIC HEARING ON BILLS PROHIBITING UW EMPLOYEES FROM PERFORMING ABORTIONS AND IMPROVING WISCONSIN’S INDUCED ABORTION REPORT

By Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin Legislative Director

State Senator André Jacque (R-De Pere) has introduced two important pro-life bills that will receive a public hearing this week in his committee.

Senate Bill 260, co-authored by Rep. Dave Murphy (R-Greenville), would prohibit both UW System and UW Hospital & Clinics Authority employees from performing or assisting in the performance of abortions while in the scope of their employment. The bill effectively ends UW medical resident abortion training and UW faculty performance of abortions at the Madison Planned Parenthood abortion facility, a grisly arrangement that stains the reputation of Wisconsin’s public university system and flagship hospital.

Senate Bill 261, co-authored by Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R-Muskego), would improve Wisconsin’s annual induced abortion report by requiring more comprehensive and scientifically accurate information about abortions in our state. The bill adds to the report the sex of the aborted preborn child, if it can be determined by a visual inspection, whether the preborn child had a fetal anomaly, and if so, the nature of the fetal anomaly. The bill also removes the anonymity of the facility in which the abortion was performed, while retaining anonymity for the patient and the abortionist.

The Senate Committee on Human Services, Children and Families will hold a public hearing on SB 260 & SB 261 this Wednesday, May 26 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 411 South of the State Capitol. Sen. Jacque is the chairman of the committee.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Legislative Director Matt Sande will testify in support of SB 260 and SB 261. Cynthia Jones-Nosacek, MD and James Linn, MD, president and vice-president of the Milwaukee Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, respectively, will testify in support of SB 260. Elizabeth Larson, MD of Our Lady of Hope Clinic, and a member of the Madison Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, will testify in support of SB 260.

ACT NOW!

  • Please ATTEND the public hearing and testify or register in favor of SB 260 & SB 261.

  • If you are unable to attend the public hearing, CALL or EMAIL your state senator TODAY and urge him/her to “PASS SB 260 & SB 261.”

Tell them:

  • “UW faculty members and medical residents should NOT be spending their paid state time providing abortions."

  • “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin should not be an abortion-training ground for UW medical residents. Abortion is NOT healthcare!”

It’s critical that we know specifically where Wisconsin’s abortions are being performed and for what reasons. Let’s shine a light and expose the evil of abortion wherever it occurs – whether it be a dingy abortion center in the big city or a state-of-the-art hospital in the suburbs.

  • Don’t know your state senator? Go to legis.wisconsin.gov and type in your home address under "Who Are My Legislators" or call the Legislative Hotline:
    1-800-362-9472.

Thank you for making your pro-life voices heard in the Wisconsin Senate!