Madison – Today, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced a lawsuit which aims to overturn Wisconsin laws requiring that only a doctor may perform an abortion and that a woman give informed consent after a 24-hour waiting period. Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decisions – Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – that legalized abortion for any reason whatsoever up to birth, Wisconsin enacted these laws to limit the harm to both moms and babies. In light of Planned Parenthood’s latest assault on life, Representative Lindee Brill (R-Sheboygan Falls), Representative Scott Allen (R-Waukesha), Representative Elijah Behnke (R-Town of Chase), Representative Joy Goeben (R-Hobart), Representative Dave Maxey (R-New Berlin), Representative Dave Murphy (R-Hortonville), Representative Jerry O’Connor (R-Fond du Lac), Representative Chuck Wichgers (R-Muskego), Senator André Jacque (R-New Franken), Senator Romaine Quinn (R-Birchwood), and Senator Cory Tomczyk (R-Mosinee) issued the following comments:

“This is an attack on the safety of women’s healthcare. This lawsuit will open the floodgates for sexual abuse of minors and sex trafficking in our state. Doctors are mandatory reporters of suspected abuse. Removing physicians from the abortion equation strips basic protection for a girl or woman aborting her baby. Planned Parenthood is notorious for ignoring state laws against rape and sexual abuse. We also know that 11% of women who take the abortion pill experience serious adverse effects.

This lawsuit is yet another attempt by Planned Parenthood to usurp the duty of the legislature. If pro-abortion radicals want to change the law in Wisconsin, they should go through the legislative process. However, Planned Parenthood has not deigned to proceed that way due to their impatience and desperate urge to encourage a culture of death. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is supposed to be an impartial arbiter of state law, and yet Justice Chris Taylor is the former legal and policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. This justice will most certainly deny justice to unborn baby boys and girls, and to their mothers, should this case come before the state high court.

Planned Parenthood acts under the guise of caring about women. However, this reckless endangerment demonstrates it is not the wellbeing of women that they care about but pushing a dangerous agenda and killing our future.

We urge the people of Wisconsin to join us in condemning Planned Parenthood’s disregard for the safety of women and children. As common-sense legislators, we will continue to fight to protect the safety of all Wisconsinites.”