The real Scott Walker emerges and he says women shouldn't have the right to make their own health decisions.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has finally come clean about his abortion stance now that he's past his statewide general election and courting right wingers for his 2016 nomination bid. Walker released a letter Tuesday spelling out his embrace of 20-week abortion bans. Patrick Marley has
this excerpt from Walker's letter:
"As the Wisconsin legislature moves forward in the coming session, further protections for mother and child are likely to come to my desk in the form of a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks," his letter said. "I will sign that bill when it gets to my desk and support similar legislation on the federal level.
"I was raised to believe in the sanctity of life and I will always fight to protect it."
It's unclear how abortion bans "protect" the life of a mother, but what is clear is that Walker lied to voters last November
when he ran an ad suggesting that even though he is personally pro-life, he would leave “the final decision to a woman and her doctor.”
[T]here’s no doubt in my mind the decision of whether or not to end a pregnancy is an agonizing one. That’s why I support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options. The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.
That was then, this is now. No choice, ladies. Sorry, Scott knows best.
Head below the fold for more on Walker's 180.
Walker's rhetorical flip-flop came after he enraged anti-abortion activists with a lackluster performance on Fox News Sunday, where he admitted that as president he couldn't singlehandedly overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. At least he was honest about that.
Just for the sake of reminders about Walker's position:
The likely Republican presidential contender opposes a woman’s right to choose and has used his office to curtail that right, signing a bill that requires women having abortions to undergo ultrasounds and defunding Planned Parenthood. He backs an outright ban on all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.
Next, he'll be coming after your birth control because that's the next pet project of anti-abortion activists.