WisDems: Assertion on Ron Johnson voting in opposition to the Ladies’s Total well being Security Act

MADISON, Wis. – In response to Ron Johnson voting in direction of the Ladies’s Well being and health Protection Act, which might be an important section in shielding entry to abortion versus the onslaught of political assaults geared toward blocking entry to wellbeing therapy, Democratic Occasion of Wisconsin Senate Communications Advisor Philip Shulman launched the adhering to assertion: 

“Ron Johnson has taken every prospect to undermine Wisconsinites’ liberty to make their private selections about their well being care. Regardless of whether or not it’s contacting for Roe v. Wade to be overturned or supporting excessive laws that will block a person’s means to entry abortion care, Ron Johnson’s self-serving agenda will come forward of Wisconsinites’ potential to make their very own private well being therapy conclusions.”

Added Observe document:

• When discussing the affect repealing Roe v. Wade would have, Johnson stated: “I don’t perspective that [as] these sorts of an enormous danger to ladies’s wellbeing. I really feel – I think about points can be simply good.”
• Johnson stated if of us by no means just like the abortion tips of their situation, they mainly “can shift.”
• Johnson has advocated for a federal ban on abortion after 20 months, jeopardizing the reproductive authorized rights of 1000’s and 1000’s throughout the area.
• Johnson joined 43 of his Senate Republican colleagues and signed on to an amicus transient in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Properly being Company that urged the Supreme Courtroom to uphold Mississippi’s regulation that banned abortion following 15 months of being pregnant.