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Tue Oct 7, 2014, 10:00 AM Oct 2014

Wisconsin: Video of Walker Saying He Supports Banning Abortion Even in Cases of Rape & Incest

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/2010-video-unearthed-walker-saying-he-supports-banning-abortion


2010 Video Unearthed of Walker Saying He Supports Banning Abortion Even in Cases of Rape & Incest

In Governor Scott Walker's latest ad he does what he does best: Lying by telling the truth.

In response to an ad put out by Emily's List accusing Walker of being anti-choice to the point of not even allowing women that have been the victim of rape the choice to abort their unwanted pregnancy, Walker responded with an ad that suggests that he is pro-choice. In the ad (deceptively called "Decision" ) he says, "the bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor." It's unclear which of Walker's many anti-choice bills that he is talking about, but it doesn't matter, because even though Walker has made getting an abortion much, much more difficult, ultimately when a woman has jumped through all of the hoops, the final decision is of course left "to a woman and her doctor"-- but not because Scott Walker wants it that way, but because choice is still the law of the land.

We know that Walker believes that not only should all abortions be banned, but that even conventional birth control pills that women have been using for decades should also be banned. (Why? Because on rare occasions, birth control pills allow an egg to be fertilized and the fertilized egg isn't allowed to attach to the uterine lining and grow into a fetus. Walker considers this a form of abortion.) How do we know Walker believes all this stuff? The Anti-Choice community speaks to one another with a variety of "dog whistle" terms. One of those terms is "100% pro-life." To most people that means that someone is just really enthusiastic about an issue, but
in the Anti-Choice community it means that they oppose choice in all circumstances, from rape to incest to even birth conrol pills. It even means that Terri Schiavo types of end-of-life decisions can never be made.

Walker proudly says on his website that he is "100% pro-life" and makes a point of saying he has been endorsed by the extreme group Pro-Life Wisconsin, which only endorses candidates that are 100% pro-life. We also know that Walker is opposed to choice even in cases of rape and incest because he was pressed to admit to it in a 2010 meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board:

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