During the primaries, Tim Michels, the Trumplican gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, told right-wing radio audiences that the state's antebellum anti-abortion law is an "exact mirror of my position." The 1849 law, which went back into effect when the Alito-Thomas Court overturned Roe v. Wade this year, makes abortion a crime in practically all circumstances, including cases of rape, incest, or a danger to the woman's health.
Even after the August primary, he told a Dane County Republican audience that he would not soften his anti-abortion stance to allow for exceptions for rape and incest cases.
Since then, he has allowed for the possibility that he would sign a bill that would allow rape and incest victims to terminate a resulting pregnancy, in the event that our legislature with its entrenched Republican majority were to send him such a bill.
Given, however, that our Republican state legislature summarily adjourned within seconds the special session Governor Evers had called on the abortion issue, only a fool would hold out hope that they would send a Governor Michels that bill.
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