Nicholson & Vukmir GOP WIS US Senate candidates want personhood law, no-exceptions abortion ban...

Nicklolson & Vukmir Wisconsin GOP US Senate candidates tell group they want personhood law, no-exceptions abortion ban


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MARK SOMMERHAUSER msommerhauser@madison.com May 19, 2018 Updated 17 min ago 0



Wisconsin’s top Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir, told an advocacy group they support banning abortion with no exceptions and new restrictions on stem cell research.

Nicholson and Vukmir also told the group Pro-Life Wisconsin that they favor a federal “personhood” law, a controversial measure that some experts say could criminalize certain forms of birth control.

Both Nicholson, of Delafield, and Vukmir, of Brookfield, got a perfect “100 percent” rating from Pro-Life Wisconsin, the state’s most uncompromising anti-abortion group. The rating is based on their answers to the group’s candidate survey.

For Nicholson, a management consultant and Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who has not held elected office, the survey gives the most complete look yet at how his abortion views have changed. Nicholson is a former college Democrat who once said he supported abortion rights.

Vukmir, the assistant majority leader in the state Senate, long has been known as one of its most anti-abortion-rights members. She got the endorsement of Pro-Life Wisconsin during a past campaign for the Legislature, where she has voted for a host of anti-abortion bills including Wisconsin’s 20-week abortion ban.

Both Republicans contrast sharply with the incumbent they hope to unseat, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, of Madison, who supports abortion rights. Vukmir and Nicholson are running in the Aug. 14 primary for the GOP nod to oppose Baldwin.

Baldwin has a 100-percent rating on the scorecard of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the advocacy arm of the nation’s biggest provider of reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.

Pro-Life Wisconsin spokesman Matt Sande acknowledged it’s unusual to have both leading GOP candidates for a statewide office get a perfect score on the survey.

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