Scott Walker lied about abortion position "to wipe that issue right off the table"

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In October, 2014, campaigning for reelection as governor of Wisconsin, Walker put out an ad emphatically stating that he supported a bill leaving the final decision on abortion to "a woman and her doctor". Today, Walker admits that he took that position simply "to wipe that issue right off the table" in his campaign to win the election.

After being repeatedly slammed by pro-choice groups like Emily's List, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood for signing into law a bill that requires women to undergo ultrasound exams before getting abortions, Walker ran an ad that described the decision of whether or not to end a pregnancy as "an agonizing one."

"That’s why I support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options," Walker said, looking directly into the camera. "The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor. Now, reasonable people can disagree on this issue. Our priority is to protect the health and safety of all Wisconsin citizens."

In July, 2015, with the campaign for governor over and the campaign to win Iowa on, Walker weaseled his way out of his position during the campaign for governor with this on the Laura Ingraham radio show:

"Because we wanted to make the point — you had the pro-abortion, the NARAL, and Emily’s List, and Planned Parenthood and others out there tying to twist our ultrasound language into something that it wasn’t. We wanted to make the case, this is all it does, it doesn’t do anything else for all them complaining about this, it doesn’t change that decision," Walker said. "I still believe that you’re talking about an unborn child as a human being, and I believe that, and I have articulated that for more than 20 years, all the way back — a lot of the people you were sitting with are folks I worked with at Marquette Students for Life when I was a student in college. I’ve always had a strong pro-life position, I’ve always defended that. But, for us, it made it able to wipe that issue right off the table because we pushed back and said, what we were proposing was a positive, strong common sense thing to do to get people information."

Ingraham responded: "But you don't believe — I just want to clarify this, governor ... you don't believe the final decision should be between a woman and her doctor—"

"No," Walker replied. "I believe it's an unborn child. My point was, in pointing that out, is the bill, all it does, is require an ultrasound. It didn't change what the law is."

LINK to Cap Times article

[randys1]

1. We know he plans on starving poor people to death and killing Women in back alleys

And yet, he will get TENS of MILLIONS of votes.

America is broken, badly.

[SamKnause]

2. If Scott Walker's lips are moving he is lying.

Unfortunately for this country, and the world, this applies

to the majority of Republicans and many Democratic politicians

as well.