Category Archives: Why Personhood is Right for Wisconsin

Why Personhood is Right for Wisconsin, Appendix: Further Discussion of the Constitutionality of §939.75(2)(b)(1) if §940.04 is Struck Down

This appendix expands on my discussion, in Part IV, of the constitutionality of §939.75(2)(b)(1) of the Wisconsin Code if the Personhood Amendment passes AND Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court at some future date AND abortion-rights advocates … Continue reading

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Personhood is Right for Wisconsin, Part IV: Why Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s Lawyers are Wrong, in Five Graphics and a Joke, Part II

This post is a direct continuation of Part III of my series on Personhood Wisconsin.  I am not even stopping to breathe, much less to recap the discussion for those of you just joining us.  If you want to catch … Continue reading

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Personhood is Right for Wisconsin, Part III: Why Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s Lawyers are Wrong, in Five Graphics and a Joke

If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first.  You might also wish to read the second article in this series, which discussed Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about the Personhood Amendment.  We now … Continue reading

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Personhood is Right for Wisconsin, Part II: Why Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s Public Campaign Against Personhood is Deeply Flawed

If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first. This post deals with Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about Personhood.  For a discussion of the (substantially different) arguments employed by its legal white paper, … Continue reading

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Personhood is Right for Wisconsin, Part I: Why Personhood is a Good Idea

The battle for the soul of the pro-life movement is being waged between a pair of cheap office suites in the Milwaukee suburbs. In the challenger’s corner, scrappy Pro-Life Wisconsin is working to pass an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution … Continue reading

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