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How Much Time Should She Do?

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin launched a joint media campaign to educate the public about the threat of abortion once again becoming illegal in Wisconsin.

The first phase of the “How Much Time Should She Do?” campaign features radio and online ads targeting legislators in Milwaukee, Green Bay and La Crosse who support Wisconsin’s Criminal Abortion Statute (Wis. Stat. § 940.04) and who voted this year to preserve criminal penalties for victims of rape.

 

The second phase features a new radio ad in the La Crosse media market to educate voters about these issues and to encourage the public to contact their legislators to find out what their positions are on rape victims having access to emergency contraception in hospital emergency rooms and access to safe, legal abortion.

The radio campaign features a rape victim speaking about how she needed support and choices following her assault and how some legislators want to deny her access to pregnancy prevention and criminalize her if she sought an abortion. The media campaign poses the question to these anti-choice legislators: If abortion becomes a crime again in Wisconsin, how much prison time should women serve for having one?

 

If abortion is outlawed, women and their doctors will be criminals – regardless of the circumstances. Efforts to clarify the conflict in our current Criminal Abortion Statute to ensure rape victims are not threatened with prison time were rejected by 54 Assembly representatives.

“Wisconsin voters do not want to go back to a time when abortion was a crime,” said Carmen Marg-Patton, Programs Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation. “We are committed to educating the public about these legislators’ anti-choice votes – they want abortion to be a felony even if a woman’s health is in danger, even if she is a victim of rape.”
Listen to the new How Much Time Ad:

 

Listen to the ads from the first phase:
Representative Carl Van Roy (R-Green Bay) ad
Assembly Leader Mike Huebsch (R-West Salem) ad

Click here to learn about A Roe of Our Own, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin's efforts to ensure that no matter what happens to Roe v. Wade, Wisconsin women's right to a legal safe abortion will be protected. Or sign the Roe of Our Own Petition.

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