Andrea Nill blogs about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's latest proposal, denying prenatal care to the undocumented women who are pregnant:
Walker's prenatal care proposal contradicts his own anti-choice position which has essentially translated into a crusade against abortion. Walker has often described himself “100 percent pro-life” and opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest. “I believe in protecting life from conception to natural death,” states Walker on his website. As an assemblyman, Walker fought to ban “partial-birth” abortions that could save a mother's life and prevent state and local government employees from “promoting, encouraging, or counseling in favor of abortion services.” During his campaign for governor, he made a pledge to Pro-Life Wisconsin, an organization that opposes abortion without exception, that he would seek an absolute ban on abortion.
When you deny prenatal care to an undocumented pregnant woman, you're not so much harming the woman as the fully fledged person she's carrying in her womb. This proposal makes sense only if you believe that fetuses aren't people and abortion isn't murder but that women should be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term anyway.
