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Related: About this forumNicholson & Vukmir GOP WIS US Senate candidates want personhood law, no-exceptions abortion ban...
Nicklolson & Vukmir Wisconsin GOP US Senate candidates tell group they want personhood law, no-exceptions abortion ban
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MARK SOMMERHAUSER msommerhauser@madison.com May 19, 2018 Updated 17 min ago 0
Wisconsins top Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir, told an advocacy group they support banning abortion with no exceptions and new restrictions on stem cell research.
Nicholson and Vukmir also told the group Pro-Life Wisconsin that they favor a federal personhood law, a controversial measure that some experts say could criminalize certain forms of birth control.
Both Nicholson, of Delafield, and Vukmir, of Brookfield, got a perfect 100 percent rating from Pro-Life Wisconsin, the states most uncompromising anti-abortion group. The rating is based on their answers to the groups candidate survey.
For Nicholson, a management consultant and Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who has not held elected office, the survey gives the most complete look yet at how his abortion views have changed. Nicholson is a former college Democrat who once said he supported abortion rights.
Vukmir, the assistant majority leader in the state Senate, long has been known as one of its most anti-abortion-rights members. She got the endorsement of Pro-Life Wisconsin during a past campaign for the Legislature, where she has voted for a host of anti-abortion bills including Wisconsins 20-week abortion ban.
Both Republicans contrast sharply with the incumbent they hope to unseat, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, of Madison, who supports abortion rights. Vukmir and Nicholson are running in the Aug. 14 primary for the GOP nod to oppose Baldwin.
Baldwin has a 100-percent rating on the scorecard of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the advocacy arm of the nations biggest provider of reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.
Pro-Life Wisconsin spokesman Matt Sande acknowledged its unusual to have both leading GOP candidates for a statewide office get a perfect score on the survey.
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Nicholson & Vukmir GOP WIS US Senate candidates want personhood law, no-exceptions abortion ban... (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2018
OP
Unbelievable. Even the Bible didn't say fetuses were people - before GOP changed the bible in 1970s
sharedvalues
May 2018
#1
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. Unbelievable. Even the Bible didn't say fetuses were people - before GOP changed the bible in 1970s
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)2. Abortion
on top of everything else. Have fun re-litigating that one Generation Z. It's a cluster-fuck.
We need a blanket law that repeals everything dt did due to defrauding the American Public with the help of a Foreign Enemy. Bc re-fighting all these things that have folded under this fool will take 50 years to do it the old way. The way it was originally mandated and enshrined into law.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. I know GOPers don't care but a lot of deaths will occur from women
seeking some kind of way of ceasing their pregnancies. It will be again, a repeat from the past in America. Ya think learning from history would help the future but these people think they are messengers from their GAWD, and are the true death panels.