MADISON, WI - On Jan 30, 2025, Wisconsin’s most extreme anti-choice group Pro-Life Wisconsin doubled down on their full-fledged support for right-wing politician Brad Schimel, vowing to “do everything we can” to prop up Schimel and his radical anti-freedom campaign.

Pro-Life Wisconsin’s explicit, “loud and bold” support for Brad Schimel is no surprise. Just as Pro-Life Wisconsin supports passing a total, no-exceptions abortion ban, Brad Schimel has a long record of trying to rip away Wisconsinites’ reproductive freedom. Brad Schimel has said “there is not a constitutional right to abortion” in Wisconsin and sued to restrict access to reproductive health care as attorney general.

Read more about why Pro-Life Wisconsin is all-in for Brad Schimel:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Stringent anti-abortion group hasn’t endorsed Brad Schimel. But its staffers are all in
By: Dan Bice

• Calling it “perilous times” for opponents of abortion rights, a leader of a stringent anti-abortion group says members of the organization are personally advocating for conservative Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel to be elected to the state Supreme Court this spring.
   
• Sande acknowledged that he had written an article in the organization’s recent newsletter saying it was “critical” for Schimel to be elected to the high court and given a TV interview speaking out in support of Schimel.
   
• Dan Miller, the state director for Pro-Life Wisconsin, also posted on X this week, “Vote for Brad Schimel - April 1st, 2025 - Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
   
• “This is such a perilous moment in Wisconsin that we need to do everything we can to elect Brad Schimel, whether he’s to get our endorsement or not,” Sande said. “We know what we want. We know what we represent at Pro-Life Wisconsin across the state - the voice of the unborn - and that is why we are being loud and bold and encouraging people to mark their calendar on April, 1, 2025.”
   
• Pro-Life Wisconsin is also the more exclusive of the state’s two groups opposed to abortion rights. Pro-Life Wisconsin opposes exceptions to abortion, contraceptives and stem-cell research. Right to Life Wisconsin takes no position on contraceptives and is open to exceptions to abortions, including for the life of the mother.
   
• In the past, Schimel signed on to a 2012 legal paper advocating for a years-long plan to make abortion illegal in nearly all cases. The white paper from Wisconsin Right to Life argued that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn its decision that had legalized abortion, Roe vs. Wade, and that an 1849 state law would then immediately make the procedure illegal in Wisconsin.
   
• Schimel has also weighed in on the issue more recently.
   
• At a Calumet County Republican Party gathering on July 29, he said, according to audio obtained by the Journal Sentinel, “There is not a constitutional right to abortion in our state constitution. That will be a sham if they find that.”