Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar endorses fetal heartbeat bill

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar has far-right views on reproductive rights, including the belief that a six-week heartbeat abortion ban would be “middle” ground.

The Court of Appeals judge discussed the issue at length while speaking to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College Republicans last November, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report from Monday and audio provided to Heartland Signal. During the forum, Lazar said she wants the issue to be decided by the Wisconsin State Legislature and the governor, and that she believes most people would support a heartbeat law.

“If they’re going to say heartbeat, I think maybe people can live with that,” Lazar said. “You’re always going to get the people on one side who say, no, it has to be at conception, and you get the other people on the other side who say, up to the date of birth. And I think most of the people in Wisconsin are in the middle.”

Heartbeat bills only allow abortion procedures until the point a heartbeat can be detected in the fetus, which typically occurs six weeks after conception. Many women are not even aware they are pregnant at this point, making heartbeat bills a near total abortion ban. The concept of a “fetal heartbeat” is also contested by medical experts.




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