For the Record: Anti-abortion arson investigation; rising Covid cases in Wisconsin

FTR: Republican congressmen ask U.S. DOJ to research Madison arson

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-01) was considered one of Wisconsin’s 5 Republican congressmen who signed onto a letter to the U.S. Division of Justice this week, asking they be a part of the investigation into the arson on the anti-abortion clinic on Madison’s north aspect final Sunday.

On For the File, Rep. Steil in contrast the arson and vandalism assault to protests in opposition to police violence and systemic racial inequity throughout the nation in 2020 in response to George Floyd’s homicide in Minneapolis, the place former MPD police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in his homicide.

“There is no such thing as a room in our society for prison habits as an expression of political thought. That entails all prison exercise,” Rep. Steil advised host Naomi Kowles in response to a query about why there was an absence of shock over comparable violence in opposition to abortion clinics.

Watch the complete interview above.

FTR: Wisconsin abortion activists plan new connections throughout state strains to help girls if Roe is overturned

Wisconsin-based advocacy teams are already planning easy methods to shift their companies to help girls searching for out of state abortions if Roe v Wade is overturned, leaving Wisconsin with a 173-year-old legislation banning all abortions besides those who save a mom’s life.

Lucy Marshall, president of the Girls’s Medical Fund in Wisconsin, mentioned they’re growing partnerships with funds in different states the place abortion would nonetheless be protected beneath state legislation. The WMF helps fund abortions and logistical assist like journey and childcare prices for Wisconsin girls searching for abortions in Wisconsin or touring out of state.

“Wisconsin residents who go to neighboring states like Minnesota or Illinois will be capable of join with abortion funds which have the native experience, relationship, data,” Marshall defined. “These partnerships will seem like placing our funding collectively, ensuring that folks from Wisconsin who’re going to clinics in Illinois or Minnesota are nonetheless in a position to have the gaps of their prices for abortions paid totally.”

The group helped fund about 1,500 abortions in 2021, a 30% improve from the earlier yr. Up to now in 2022, they’ve helped fund about 500 abortions for Wisconsinites.

FTR: State’s chief medical officer on rising Covid instances in Wisconsin and nationwide

The Division of Well being Providers’ chief medical officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard joined For the File to debate the rise in Covid instances in Wisconsin and nationwide.

“We have to concentrate, and we have to be sensible,” he mentioned. Along with guaranteeing folks have accomplished their vaccine collection together with boosters, he famous that medicines are way more extensively accessible for folks to stop extreme illness in the event that they do change into contaminated.

The present case counts are “completely” an undercount, he mentioned, when factoring in at-home fast assessments and folks self-isolating on their very own with out reporting their instances to public well being.

Whereas hospitalizations stay comparatively low in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Hospital Affiliation’s Covid tracker does present that 88 hospitalizations have been added in simply the final 7 days, bringing the depend on Friday to 345 statewide. That’s up from 141 instances on April 13, a month earlier.

Watch the complete interview with Dr. Westergaard above

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