MADISON, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) — The families and clergy who attended a pro-life rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol were “visually assaulted” by two topless women who stood in their midst while the police stood by powerless to intervene.
Billed as the Third Annual March for Life Wisconsin by the state’s premier pro-life organization, Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW), the event was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s issuing of Dobbs v. Jackson Womens’ Health Organization last year that overturned the deadly Roe vs. Wade decision from 1973.
“The good and prayerful families who attended” the event on Saturday, “were visually assaulted by two bare-breasted female pro-aborts,” explained former PLW director Peggy Hamill in an email correspondence with LifeSiteNews. “At least one of them had red paint running from her crotch down her legs.”
“The assault lasted throughout the entire rally with a third bare-breasted [woman] joining them toward the end,” she wrote.
With the rally being held on a large column of stairs leading up to the Capitol building, and the podium placed at the top landing facing down, the women stood near the top “facing the hundreds of good Christians (mostly Catholics) who had gathered up the stairs. When Fr. Rick Heilman and when Bishop Donald Hying [of the Diocese of Madison] were speaking, they turned around toward the podium to expose themselves to these holy men,” Hamill explained.
During this time, groups of individuals did their best to block this indecent exposure with their pro-life signs. One such gentleman was Bill Brennan, a pro-life activist from Janesville. Speaking to LifeSiteNews by telephone, he also described his approach to a police officer regarding this situation imploring him to intervene.
The officer lamented this lewd display as well, stating, “I feel your pain, but we’re in Madison and there is nothing we can do about it.”
In the degenerate city of Madison, ‘public nudity is not a violation’ of the law
The City of Madison is well known in the Midwest for its excessive liberal culture. Earlier this month, it hosted its annual “naked bike ride” for the purpose of celebrating “body positivity.”
It’s city ordinance against public indecency does not include the full exposure of female breasts but is rather limited to the “genitals or pubic area” and only if such an exposure can be judged to be done “indecently” (26.01).
In a 2017 press release explaining the law with regard to the naked bike ride, the City of Madison stated, “Public nudity is not a violation of that particular ordinance. The behavior would have to involve much more than not being clothed, and would need to involve lewd and lascivious acts.” Additionally, “it should also be known that disorderly conduct cannot be enforced for mere nakedness!”
According to PLW legislative director Matt Sande, the problem on Saturday was not Capitol police enforcement but the statutes themselves. “This is not on the cops. This is on the Madison City Council and the mayor or whoever passed this ordinance [as it stands],” he told LifeSiteNews in a telephone interview.
“The police definitely did better this year than last year,” he explained, describing how counter-protestors who “tore up signs got nailed for $200 fines,” and another man who started shouting down a featured speaker was removed from the scene by police immediately.
“But their hands were tied on the topless women. They can only do what they can do,” he said. “I know those cops. They like us being there. I could tell they were pro-life.”
Plausible solution includes state legislation banning nudity on Capitol grounds
In order to prevent such a problem in the future, Sande first recognized that “obviously, we’re not going to succeed in [petitioning the City Council of] Madison” for a remedy. He thus reasoned that lobbying the state legislature to pass a law forbidding individuals from being topless on the Capitol grounds would likely be “a legitimate ask.”
“When you’re on capitol grounds, it’s just a sacred place, and there’s a lot of kids there, a lot of students, and you shouldn’t be able to just expose yourself,” he continued, stipulating a reasonable exception for breastfeeding. “But just to go around shirtless, no, it’s improper. It’s inappropriate,” and he expects legislators on both sides of the aisle in Wisconsin could be persuaded to agree.
“I think you could pressure the Democrats on this,” he continued. “I mean is [Democratic Gov. Tony] Evers going to veto a bill [effectively saying to the public], ‘No, I really think you should go topless at the Capitol in front of all the kids?’”
Pro-lifers remain undeterred despite lewd and obscene harangue from abortion advocates
Despite this lewd assault, the crowd of around 1,000 people remained joyful and undaunted for their demonstration and March around the Capitol (see photos here). 
According to a summary from PLW, in his talk Bishop Hying reminisced about his earlier days of pro-life activism “ministering to women exiting abortion centers.” He also encouraged the crowd, affirming that “every single human life is sacred, made in the image and likeness of God, to be respected, to be nurtured, and loved. We are not the arbiters of life or death.”
Dr. Pat Castle, founder of Life Runners, gave a rousing speech proclaiming “Roe v. Wade is gone! We celebrate the 25,000 lives that were born this year because of the Dobbs decision, but one abortion is an infinite number too many. We will not rest until all children are protected from abortion!”
Obscene pro-abortion activists a ‘scant group … running out of steam.’ Pro-lifers will continue to ‘stand up for life like we always have’
According to Hamill, working “in consort with the three silent sexual assailants, dozens of pro-aborts screamed obscenities at the base of the steps throughout the entire prayerful rally and march.”
Current state PLW director Dan Miller described all of these protesters as “a very vocal, loud minority.” They are a “scant group” that is “running out of steam” to the extent they feel the need to “infringe upon our space.”
“They’ve just gotten the most devastating blow that they could ever have gotten” with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, he said. And “they’ve been sleeping for 50 years,” ignoring Wisconsin’s pre-Roe virtual ban on abortion that has been on the books since 1849.
This statute, 940.04, criminalizes preborn child killing from conception except when “necessary to save the life of the mother,” according to at least two physicians. As a result, abortion mills have stopped killing preborn babies in the state.
Pro-lifers must continue to “stand up for life like we always have, and don’t let these [scant] bullies keep you home. That’s all they want to do,” Miller continued. “This is all they do, all the time, everywhere.” Pro-lifers must “never cede any ground to them that we’ve already gained. None. Zero.”
Republicans have controlled the Wisconsin legislature since 2011, but Evers, who has pledged to give illegal abortionists clemency, was the recognized winner of the 2022 election for governor, awarding him a second four-year term in office.
Liberals also prevailed in a crucial April 2023 election securing a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, putting the state’s pro-life law in jeopardy.
In remarks at the rally, competing with the harangue issuing from the pro-abortion protestors, Castle said, “We pray for them to be free from the power and principalities of evil.”
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