They came from every part of Wisconsin. They were babies in the womb and in carriages, teenagers, young families, and activists who have been in the pro-life movement for decades. They represented every kind of pro-life work: pregnancy centers, healing after abortion, sidewalk counseling, protesting, educating, broadcasting, legal work, legislative activity, political campaigning and more.
The occasion was the March for Life Wisconsin, held on Saturday, June 15th at the Capitol in Madison and organized by Pro-Life Wisconsin, one of the key statewide groups.
Very much on the mind of the participants was the fact that abortions have resumed in Wisconsin after a period when the pre-Roe law had taken effect again, but then was interpreted by a judge to apply only to feticide, that is, the killing of an unborn baby outside of the context of abortion.
This strange interpretation, which limits the whole law to just one part of it, will go before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
In last year’s election, the pro-abortion side got a majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
April 1 of 2025, however, gives the voters in Wisconsin a chance to reclaim the Supreme Court, as one of the seats will be vacated by one of the pro-abortion justices.
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In the keynote address I gave to the crowd that filled the plaza in front of the Capitol building, I reminded the Wisconsin votes of this fact, and that we have to challenge any effort to “find” a “right to abortion” in the provisions any Constitution makes for privacy or liberty.
As the US Supreme Court has made clear, we have rights to privacy and liberty. But abortion is unique inasmuch as a second life is involved, and America has never interpreted privacy or liberty to include the right to end someone else’s life. That’s why Dobbs corrected the error of Roe.
I also pointed out that this year’s elections are marked by an outright battle between good and evil. We are fighting an attack on truth, which denies that a man is a man or a woman is a woman, precisely because for 50 years we’ve denied that a baby is a baby.
It is an attack on life, embodying the sentiment expressed decades ago by fascists in Spain chanting “Viva la muerte!” (“Long live death!”) and by the quote attributed to Osama bin Laden: “We win, because we love death more than you love life.”
And it is an attack on freedom, as tyranny reasserts itself in America with the weaponization of government and the strategy of criminalizing political opposition.
We were also blessed to have at the March our Silent No More Campaign’s Regional Coordinator from Wisconsin, Laura Brown. She stood next to me during my speech, holding her sign “I Regret My Abortion,” as did two other Silent No More members, one a man holding the sign “I Regret Lost Fatherhood.”
I pointed out the power of these testimonies, and the need to proclaim loudly that we who reject abortion do not reject those who have had abortions, but rather embrace them with love and forgiveness.
As we gathered on the plaza in Madison, half-naked pro-abortion women chalked the pavement with worn-out pro-abortion slogans, and stood with signs showing their outdated and unscientific messaging about “My body, my choice.”
The energy of the pro-life cause, by contrast, was also represented by various other speakers. Pam Stenzel delivered the good news that the previous day, Wisconsin initiated its first Baby Box, whereby moms can safely leave a newborn baby they feel they cannot raise. This applies the Safe Haven law, and there is such a law in every state.
And state legislator Jerry O’Connor gave an inspiring talk about resisting the nonsense bills that the Democrats introduce to advance their agenda of death. Wisconsin currently has a Democrat governor, but both the state Assembly and Senate have pro-life, Republican majorities. The aim in this year’s election is to increase both of those majorities.
In short, the pro-life movement in Wisconsin is strong, and the march, which went around the State Capitol building several times, expressed the conviction of its citizens that our elected representatives can and must stand strong in their most fundamental duty, the protection of human life, and that we will support them in every way as they do that.
