
By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
WAUWATOSA — Demonstrations rarely get more intimate than this.
About 20 protesters gathered outside Gov. Scott Walker’s Wauwatosa home Tuesday and chanted a gender neutral message, so to speak: “Focus on jobs, not our vaginas.”
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The demonstration was in response to a Republican-led bill that would require any woman wanting an abortion to first have an ultrasound.
“One thing I know you won’t find in women’s vaginas is 250,000 jobs,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, referencing Walker’s 2010 campaign pledge to create a quarter-million jobs in his first term. Democrats have derided the governor for, to date, falling well short of that goal. “We are losing economic security for our residents and we believe our Legislature should be focused on creating opportunities for jobs, and not on regulating women’s vaginas.”
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