MADISON, Wis. — Earlier this week, Tony Wied made it clear that he will not stand up for Wisconsinites’ reproductive freedoms in Congress. In an interview with FOX 11, Tony Wied celebrated the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which allowed for extreme Trump abortion bans in more than 20 states across the country.
This is in sharp contrast to Dr. Kristin Lyerly, an OBGYN who has fought for Wisconsinites’ freedom to make their own health decisions and for the government to stay out of exam rooms. Kristin Lyerly believes that your zip code should not determine the quality of health care and will make sure politicians like Tony Wied never get a say in the most personal decisions Wisconsinites make.
FOX 11 News: 8th Congressional District Candidates On The Issues: Abortion
By: Mark Leland
Democratic candidate Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN doctor and is facing off against Republican candidate Tony Wied, a former business owner.
- We asked both candidates to explain their position on abortion.
- One presidential candidate wants to restore Roe v. Wade as a federal law; the other wants individual states to decide if and when abortions are legal. What is your view on abortion in America?
- [Kristin Lyerly]: I’m so glad you asked that. Because, as an OB-GYN doctor, no one knows better than me and my patients that we are the only people who can make our own personal medical decisions. And we have to have the freedom, whether we are women or men, old or young, we have to be able to make our own personal medical decisions.
- Abortion is something that is not that black-and-white issue that politicians want you to think it is. Abortion is complicated. It’s health care. There are aspects of miscarriage management and fertility treatment and complicated pregnancies that are all tied up into this issue. So again, abortion is health care, and we all deserve the freedom to make our personal health care decisions.
- [Tony Wied]: Well, my wife and I have four children, and I can tell you that it is the greatest joy of our life — having children. You know, the Supreme Court, though, did make the decision recently, and it is back in the states’ hands like it was before the previous decision. So I believe wholeheartedly it is a states’ rights issue and not something that we deal with in the House of Representatives.
- Well, again, I think the federal government should be doing less. I think the federal government has gotten too big and is handling too many issues right now. More power needs to go back to the states, even in additional issues other than this and following the 10th Amendment. So again I think people here need to decide. The people of Wisconsin should make that decision.
