Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel (R) believes 'life begins at conception'
Last Tuesday, conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel continued his anti-abortion streak, telling a conservative women’s group that he believes “life begins at conception” and that the GOP has to “change hearts and minds.”
Schimel’s words came at a meeting of the Republican Women of Southeast Wisconsin on Jan. 22, according to audio provided to Heartland Signal on the condition of anonymity. He also said Republicans need to “shut this issue down” while lamenting that two-thirds of Wisconsinites oppose criminalizing abortion at any point. He said that he would uphold the law even though he vehemently disagrees with it.
“Personally, I believe that life begins at conception,” Schimel said. “But part of being a judge is to have humility and respect that you don’t get to make the law. And we’re going to change a lot of hearts and minds yet because right now, still two-thirds of Americans and two-thirds of Wisconsinites want some kind of abortion legal. I have to accept that as a judge. We have to shut this issue down.”
Last year, Schimel argued that his state’s abortion ban, which was written in 1849, was “valid and there’s nothing in that law to make it invalid.” The law went automatically went into effect after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The law made performing abortions a criminal act unless two doctors could determine that the pregnant woman’s life was in danger.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/01/29/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-brad-schimel-believes-life-begins-at-conception/