Tue Jun 28, 2022 – 11:18 am EDT
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) – The Democratic governor of Wisconsin promised on Saturday to give “clemency” to any abortionist in the state prosecuted for illegal abortions.
Governor Tony Evers made the remarks at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin convention, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The state has a law from 1849 that makes abortions illegal, and the reversal of Roe v. Wade allows for that law to be enforced.
“The 1849 law says that anybody providing an abortion is subject to a felony, one to six years,” Evers said at the convention. “Did you ever think about the word clemency? I will provide clemency to any physician that is charged under that law.”
“I don’t think that a law that was written before the Civil War, or before women secured the right to vote, should be used to dictate these intimate decisions on reproductive health,” Evers said.
The state’s Democratic attorney general has also promised not to prosecute people under the law.
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