Good News from WI: Madison Surgery Ctr drop its plans to do late term abortion and Obey announces retirement

The news today is fast, furious and fantastic. Rep. David Obey is announcing that he will not seek re-election. Obey is considered as one of Speaker Pelosi’s top lieutenants. His fingerprints are all over the major pieces of legislation enacted in the past year including Obamacare. So long, Mr. Obey, to whom we wish a great retirement.

In another piece of stunning news, we learned that UW has abandoned plans to start a late-term abortion program at the Madison Surgery Center. It is a complete victory for unborn children who would have been victims of late-term abortions, their mothers, their families, the grassroots people who demanded that the late-term abortion plan be stopped, and the citizens of Wisconsin. Information that UW dropped the plan became available through a letter from the Department of Justice to an attorney in Eau Claire who asked for an investigation of UW for violating the law by promoting and being involved in the late-term abortion plan approved in February of 2009. Many individuals and organizations made this possible by their calls, letters, emails, and presence outside the Madison Surgery Center.

Special thanks and praise go to those who work at the Madison Surgery Center who refused to participate in any way in providing late-term abortions and individuals who courageously changed their doctors and insurance rather than be treated at the Madison Surgery Center. Wisconsin Right to Life joined many other organizations in a coordinated effort to make certain that not a single late-term abortion would be performed. It was a gigantic effort that reached a successful conclusion – zero late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center. The news doesn’t get any better! Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. Barbara Lyons Barbara L. Lyons