Thu Sep 19, 2024 – 5:48 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – No longer content with simply advocating for the industry, Wisconsin Democrats hope to send an actual abortionist to Congress, with the candidacy of Dr. Kristin Lyerly to fill the House of Representatives seat vacated by Rep. Mike Gallagher.
Gallagher announced in March that he would resign in April rather than waiting for his term to expire, leaving the seat currently vacant. Republicans nominated businessman Tony Wied to replace him in the November elections.
Running against Wied on the Democrat side is Lyerly, an OB-GYN who commits abortions, has worked for Planned Parenthood, and is currently involved in a legal dispute over Wisconsin’s pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court is slated to begin hearing in October.
“I was the only physician who performed abortions in Sheboygan,” the county whose District Attorney Joel Urmanski is fighting to enforce the pro-life law, she told MedPage Today. Currently, “I don’t practice in Wisconsin because I know that my practice, my license, my livelihood, are under threat. So I actually practice in rural Minnesota, delivering babies and providing general ob/gyn care.”
Lyerly claimed she has always had a “strong
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