MADISON, Wis. – In case you missed it, Pro-Life Wisconsin’s State Director and staff are encouraging Wisconsinites to vote for Brad Schimel this April: “Vote for Brad Schimel — April 1st, 2025 — Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
“When an extreme group that wants to ban all abortions rallies behind and publicly declares their support for Brad Schimel, that tells you everything you need to know about his extreme positions,” said Crawford campaign spokesman Derrick Honeyman. “Brad Schimel can’t distance himself from a lifetime of fighting to take away fundamental rights and his repeated support for Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban that includes no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother.”
Pro-Life Wisconsin’s endorsement of Schimel comes after the uncovering of two audio clips from last year, where Schimel said that “there is not a constitutional right to abortion” in Wisconsin. Schimel also exclaimed on the 1849 law that bans all abortions with no exceptions, “What is flawed about that law?”
Pro-Life Wisconsin opposes any exceptions to abortion bans, has spoken out against certain forms of contraception, and also supports banning IVF fertility treatment.
There’s a simple answer voters deserve to hear from Brad Schimel: Does he support Pro-Life Wisconsin’s platform of banning all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest?
See more from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Stringent anti-abortion group hasn’t endorsed Brad Schimel. But its staffers are all in
- Calling it “perilous times” for opponents of abortion rights, a leader of a stringent anti-abortion group says members of the organization are personally advocating for conservative Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel to be elected to the state Supreme Court this spring.
- Dan Miller, the state director for Pro-Life Wisconsin, also posted on X this week, “Vote for Brad Schimel — April 1st, 2025 — Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
- “This is such a perilous moment in Wisconsin that we need to do everything we can to elect Brad Schimel, whether he’s to get our endorsement or not,” Sande said. “We know what we want. We know what we represent at Pro-Life Wisconsin across the state — the voice of the unborn — and that is why we are being loud and bold and encouraging people to mark their calendar on April, 1, 2025.”
- Pro-Life Wisconsin is also the more exclusive of the state’s two groups opposed to abortion rights. Pro-Life Wisconsin opposes exceptions to abortion, contraceptives and stem-cell research. Right to Life Wisconsin takes no position on contraceptives and is open to exceptions to abortions, including for the life of the mother.
- In the past, Schimel signed on to a 2012 legal paper advocating for a years-long plan to make abortion illegal in nearly all cases. The white paper from Wisconsin Right to Life argued that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn its decision that had legalized abortion, Roe vs. Wade, and that an 1849 state law would then immediately make the procedure illegal in Wisconsin.
- At a Calumet County Republican Party gathering on July 29, he said, according to audio obtained by the Journal Sentinel, “There is not a constitutional right to abortion in our state constitution. That will be a sham if they find that.”