Abortion advocates were ecstatic April 4 when far-left Judge Janet Protasiewicz decisively defeated conservative Daniel Kelly in an off-year election that for the first time in 15 years assured that Wisconsin’s highest court will oppose any limits on the procedure that has killed more than 63 million babies since the 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe decision was overturned June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v Jackson, which federalized the abortion issue by restoring to state legislatures the authority to decide within their respective jurisdictions how many restrictions, if any, to place on the procedure.
Protasiewicz’s massive 11-point win sparked a Politico headline proclaiming that “Abortion was a 50/50 Issue. Now It’s Republican Quicksand.” Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board described the Wisconsin result as a “five-alarm warning for the GOP about 2024.”…