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Wisconsin Officials React to Roe v. Wade Reversal

Frederica Freyberg:

Wisconsin lawmakers also weighed in. Governor Tony Evers said, This is an absolutely disastrous and unconscionable decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The consequences of which I hope to never see again in my lifetime.” Wisconsin’s Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin said, “Republicans have taken Wisconsin women back to 1849. And it is Republicans who want to keep us there with support for having politicians interfere in the freedoms of women who will now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers have had for decades.” And Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson said, For almost 50 years, the decision of nine unelected justices have prevented a democratically derived consensus on the profound moral issue of abortion to be formed. This decision” he says, “will now allow that democratic process to unfold in each state.”