WI: Why Hundreds of Wisconsin Doctors Are Asking You to Vote in Next Week's Supreme Court Race
More than 300 Wisconsin physicians and healthcare professionals announced their joint endorsement of Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz in next week’s state Supreme Court election—another example of how people who hadn’t been politically involved previously were spurred to action by right-wing moves like the elimination of a national right to abortion care for women.
“This is an issue that affects the entire house of medicine,” said Dr. Kristin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Green Bay. “This isn’t just the Ob-Gyns who are worried about it, but it’s the emergency medicine docs, family medicine docs, residents, medical students, people who have dedicated our lives to take care of our patients. We recognize that this is interference in the doctor-patient relationship, and that means that we can’t take the best possible care of our patients and in some cases we can’t take care of our patients at all.”
The physicians’ endorsement was published as a full-page ad in Tuesday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and touted at an online news conference organized by the Committee to Protect Health Care.
“As [conservative former Justice] Daniel Kelly tries to downplay his extremist views against abortion, medical professionals are raising the alarm and bringing awareness to the consequences of this election for Wisconsin women,” Dr. Madelaine Tully, a family physician in Milwaukee County, said in the press event. “Mr. Kelly has been endorsed by multiple anti-abortion organizations, including one which supports banning abortion with no exceptions even for the woman’s life. Mr. Kelly’s track record.
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