FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2014 Contact: Iris Riis 608-256-7549 x2132 [email protected] Wisconsin Women and Families need an Attorney General they can Trust Susan Happ will be that AG and a strong advocate for women and families The person who sits in the Attorney General’s office can have a huge impact on the health and wellbeing of women across Wisconsin. Over the last three years, Wisconsin’s Attorney General has expended thousands in tax payer dollars to uphold unconstitutional laws that could have eliminated most abortion services in Wisconsin. Judges in both the state and federal courts have consistently ruled against the Wisconsin Attorney General’s position and similar laws have been struck down in other. With the upcoming debate on Sunday between the Attorney General candidates, PPAWI issued a reminder to voters about the importance of the Attorney General’s race on women’s health. “The Attorney General can be an important advocate for women and families or work to make lives of Wisconsin families more difficult,” stated Tanya Atkinson, Executive Director for PPAWI. “Voters need to know the significant differences between Brad Schimel who opposes a woman’s access to abortion services, even in cases of sexual assault; and Susan Happ who will protect a woman’s ability to make her own health care decisions.” Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin encourage voters to learn more about the AG candidates and calls on the debate hosts to ask the candidates important questions about how they will advocate for women and families if elected:    Do you support Roe v. Wade as current law, which protects a pregnant woman’s ability to make her own decision about whether to choose adoption, end a pregnancy or raise a child? Birth control is basic women’s health care, essential to good maternal and child health outcomes and important to women’s economic status. Unfortunately, the current political environment has subject birth control options to multiple restrictions and barriers which make it more difficult to obtain. Will you protect greater access to high quality and affordable birth control, including Wisconsin’s current law that requires insurance companies to cover birth control prescriptions? Will you continue the current Attorney General’s crusade to eliminate access to safe and legal abortion in Wisconsin? “We know we can trust Susan Happ because she believes that a woman- not politicians should make her own decisions about her healthcare. Susan understands that women need better access to health care, and opposes politically motivated barriers that stand in the way of women’s health.” ### Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin is the advocacy arm of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. PPAWI engages in legislative and educational activity and works to elect candidates to office that support these goals.