MADISON, Wis. — Today, the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Democratic Assembly candidate John Kroll joined Marathon County Board Supervisor Ann Lemmer, physician and former healthcare executive Brian Ewert and others to discuss how Congressman Tom Tiffany has fought to restrict reproductive rights and made healthcare more expensive for working Wisconsinites. Congressman Tiffany voted for MAGA policies that caused healthcare costs to skyrocket and hospitals to shut down. Tiffany also cosponsored legislation that would effectively ban most abortions for Wisconsinites.Watch the press conference hereand see what speakers had to say below:Assembly candidate John Kroll: “Today, on the 4th anniversary of the Dobbs Decision, I am reminded that my daughters are growing up with fewer rights than previous generations here in the United States of America and that includes my wife and their mother. This is why we need politicians who will stand up for our rights and freedoms, so that we can lower costs and make life better for Wisconsinites all across the state. […] Career politicians like Tom Tiffany and Pat Snyder aren’t doing much to make things easier for Wisconsinites that are worried about their healthcare costs. Tiffany voted against extending ACA premium subsidies. That is jeopardizing health insurance for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites. Since 2025, over 22,000 Wisconsinites were forced to drop ACA coverage due to premium costs doubling in some instances, forcing people to choose between medical insurance and affording other basic needs like groceries and housing. Tiffany also voted for the most extreme cut to healthcare in United States history as part of Republicans’ ‘Big Ugly Bill,’ which gutted Medicaid and could cause over 270,000 Wisconsinites to lose healthcare insurance coverage.”Marathon County Board Supervisor Ann Lemmer: “When Roe v. Wade was overturned, Wisconsin was reverted back to the 1849 ban, which threw women and doctors into chaos. Women were left without the needed reproductive care from their trusted doctors who were left unable to provide that care for their patients in fear of facing prison for doing their jobs. Right here in Wausau, the very center of Wisconsin – a place known for our top-notch medical industry – women were forced to drive nearly three hours one way to get to either Minnesota or Illinois so they could see a doctor who could provide them with the care they needed. Those were real-life impacts that created unnecessary and heartbreak trauma.  And the ripple effects didn’t stop there. OBGYNs, they need to train in a comprehensive, reproductive care program to complete their residencies. When they were unable to fully meet their requirements in Wisconsin due to the ban, we lost medical students who opted to apply elsewhere. I don’t know about you, but I want our medical industry to thrive and we can’t do that if we don’t attract the best and the brightest.Today, abortion access has been restored, but there are lingering threats because the ban remains on the books. And when Democrats attempted to restore the rights provided by Roe v. Wade with legislation that would protect women who travel between states to receive care, Congressman Tom Tiffany voted against it. In fact, he celebrated it. Maybe that’s not a surprise since he previously cosponsored a bill that would have banned reproductive care before most women even knew they were pregnant.”Physician and former Healthcare Executive Brian Ewert: “I’m a kidney physician. Turns out, when patients with severe kidney disease become pregnant, they are facing life-threatening and serious decisions. This is no time for someone like Tom Tiffany to barge his way into an exam room where a very delicate and serious conversation is taking place because a woman who has severe kidney disease, who is also pregnant, faces a future where it has a high likelihood of progressing on to endstage kidney disease, and also a very high risk of having life-threatening complications of her pregnancy. […] And so I’ve had patients who found that the right decision for them was to terminate the pregnancy. I supported them and Tom Tiffany had no right in the exam room trying to influence her right. […]It’s not just the way [Tom Tiffany has] gone after taking away the basic human rights of women, but he has spent his career trying to take away healthcare in northern and central Wisconsin—from his legislative career to his time in Congress.”Reproductive rights advocate Ann Stevning-Roe: “[Tom Tiffany] has done nothing but oppose women’s rights and we need to keep him from the […] governorship where he could do more damage. He voted against Tammy Baldwin’s Women’s Healthcare Protection Act and Ensuring Access to Abortion Act and […] he boasted about defunding Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin.”Reproductive rights advocate Kristin Conway: “A restriction on abortion is a direct restriction on comprehensive pregnancy care. The reality is that complications happen. Miscarriages happen. And under these laws, doctors are no longer allowed to simply ask: ‘What is the safest way to treat my patient?’ Instead, they’re forced to wonder […] if treating their patient will cost them their medical license or land them a criminal charge. Criminalizing healthcare is devastating ripples. It creates immediate healthcare deserts. It drives away doctors, worsening provider shortages. It drives up skyrocketing maternal and fetal mortality rates. It creates a terrifying reality where a person’s medical safety depends entirely on where they live, not their doctor’s medical expertise.”