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Brad Schimel Challenges Susan Crawford to Say ‘Men Are Men; Women Are Women’

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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel is speaking out against Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ much-mocked decision to rename mothers “inseminated persons” in a budget bill, and he is challenging liberal opponent Susan Crawford to do the same.

We asked Schimel, the former Wisconsin Attorney General, whether he agrees with Tony Evers calling mothers inseminated people.

“Radicals backing Susan Crawford want to erase mothers and call them inseminated persons. Men are men. Women are women. Can Susan Crawford say the same?” Brad Schimel responded.

We have sent a request for comment to Crawford’s campaign and will update this story if one is received. Specifically, we asked whether she agreed with Evers’ action and would say “men are men. Women are women.” We received a response back from Schimel’s campaign within just minutes of asking for a response. We have yet to hear back from Crawford.

Crawford, a liberal Dane County judge who is under fire for giving light sentences to child molesters and for her efforts to overturn Act 10 and Voter ID, is running against Schimel in the April election, which will determine control of Wisconsin’s highest court.

In case you missed it, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers introduced a budget bill this week that calls mothers an “inseminated person” and switches both mother and father to “parent who gave birth.”

Evers crossed out the words “man,” “father,” “mother,” and “wife” in statutory language included in his budget bill.

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State rep. Amanda nedweski

State Rep. Amanda Nedweski first posted about the changes in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon. She noted that the Democratic governor replaced the word “father” over 120 times throughout the 1,917-page document.

“As a proud mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the Governor, in his 2025-27 budget bill, would reduce me and millions of other mothers across Wisconsin to ‘inseminated persons.’ It is not only deeply offensive, but it is an outright attack on the very essence of motherhood,” Nedweski wrote in a press release. “It is unconscionable that the Governor has the audacity to take the most beautiful, life-giving act a woman can perform—bringing children into this world—and turn it into nothing more than gender-neutral, virtue-signaling jargon to appease his far-left base.”

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“Governor Evers is a former science teacher,” Nedweski added. “It appears to me that he needs a refresher on basic biology. Last I checked, only one gender is capable of giving birth—women. Anyone who says otherwise is denying science.”

The Governor’s budget bill strikes the word “mother” and replaces it with gender-neutral terminology on at least 30 occasions. He replaces the word “father” over 120 times throughout the 1,917-page document.

Evers was roundly mocked on social media – including by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Evers’ bill, 2025 Senate Bill 45, Section 3106, contains several examples of terms such as husband, man, wife, father, and mother crossed out and replaced with terms like inseminated person, spouse, and person.

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Jessica McBridehttps://www.wisconsinrightnow.com
Jessica's opinions on this website and all WRN and personal social media pages, including Facebook and X, represent her own opinions and not those of the institution where she works. Jessica McBride, a Wisconsin Right Now contributor, is a national award-winning journalist and journalism educator with more than 25 years in journalism. Jessica McBride’s journalism career started at the Waukesha Freeman newspaper in 1993, covering City Hall. She was an investigative, crime, and general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a decade. Since 2004, she has taught journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has appeared in many news outlets, including Heavy.com (where she is a contributor reaching millions of readers per month), Patch.com, WTMJ, WISN, WUWM, Wispolitics.com, OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee Magazine, Nightline, El Conquistador Latino Newspaper, Japanese and German television, Channel 58, Reader’s Digest, Twist (magazine), Wisconsin Public Radio, BBC, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and others. 

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