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From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— Sen. LaTonya Johnson, D-Milwaukee, blasted a GOP bill establishing new requirements for the disposal of abortion-inducing drugs as “one of the most disturbing pieces of legislation I have ever encountered.”
Johnson spoke on a State Senate Democratic Committee call yesterday to criticize recent GOP abortion-related measures along with Sen. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, and OB-GYN Dr. Kristin Lyerly, a former candidate for the 8th CD.
The GOP proposal Johnson criticized would require the use of catch kits to dispose of pathological waste after using an abortion-inducing drug. The bill, authored by Sen. André Jacque, R-New Franken, would also subject abortion drug manufacturers to clean water requirements under the state’s Spills Law.
Manufacturers would face fines up to $20,000 per violation for not taking adequate action to address the presence of endocrine disruptors from an abortion drug in wastewater. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with hormones in the body.
Johnson labeled the proposal “grotesque overreach.” She said instead of addressing affordability concerns, “Republican senators seem intent on humiliating women who are already going through some of the most difficult and most traumatic times of their life.”
Lyerly noted the same drug is used to induce miscarriages and abortions. She offered a hypothetical example of a couple that wants to have children but has a miscarriage and decides medication is the best option to treat it.
“Because of Sen. Jacque, this couple would now be forced to collect the biological byproducts of their miscarriage, the blood and the tissue that comes out of her uterus, they’d have to put it in a bag and return it to the medical facility. It’s disgusting,” Lyerly said.
Lyerly said there is no evidence to support that the medications contaminate the water supply.
Jacque in a statement to WisPolitics said Lyerly and the SSDC are lying to “deflect from their own efforts to traumatize women who have endured miscarriages in order to ‘normalize abortion’ and legalize unlimited taxpayer-funded abortion.”
“As defined at the very start of the bill itself, ‘Abortion-inducing drug means a drug, medicine, oral hormonal compound, mixture, or preparation, when it is prescribed to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to produce a live birth or remove a dead fetus,’ thus clearly excluding applicability to any situations where miscarriage or stillbirth has occurred,” Jacque said.
Co-author Rep. Lindee Brill, R-Sheboygan Falls, also criticized Dems’ comments, saying the bill would not apply to miscarriages.
“Their comments are willfully deceptive and are a continuation of a shameful scare-tactic meant to cynically take advantage of women in their most vulnerable state, like experiencing a miscarriage, to continue and normalize a culture of abortion,” Brill said.
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