(The Center Square) – Wisconsin candidate for governor David Crowley is vowing to propose a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in the state if he is elected.

Crowley, a Democrat who is currently the Milwaukee County executive, announced Tuesday that he would propose a permanent rule that would allow for abortion and decisions about reproductive health, including contraception, fertility treatment, pregnancy and miscarriage care without penalty along with shielding healthcare professionals from prosecution for abortions.

“As a husband and father, I believe that every Wisconsinite deserves the freedom to make personal decisions about pregnancy and reproductive healthcare,” Crowley said in a statement. “Meanwhile, three billionaires are spending $34 million to buy this election for MAGA Extremist Congressman Tom Tiffany who is an anti-abortion extremist and who backed a nationwide abortion ban at zero weeks with no exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother.

“We can’t let him near the governor’s office.”

Dianne Hesselbein, the top Democrat in the state Senate, previously proposed a constitutional amendment on abortion if Democrats win back the legislature in November.

Wisconsin’s current abortion law bans ending a pregnancy after 20 weeks. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled last year that subsequent legislation had effectively repealed the 1894 ban.

Republican Tom Tiffany told PBS Wisconsin earlier this year that he would not seek to change Wisconsin’s current law.

“I voted for the current law, which, 10 years ago when I was in the state Legislature, which is you can have an abortion up to five months,” Tiffany said. “I voted for that law, and as governor I will uphold it.”

Crowley, however, plans to take action along with other state Democrats.

A constitutional amendment in the state must pass in consecutive legislative sessions with a majority vote and then pass a statewide referendum.

“As governor, I will veto any ban, protect birth control, and fight to put your freedom in the state constitution where no politician, court, or billionaire can take it away,” Crowley said. “Bottom line: I will never stop fighting to defend a woman’s right to choose and make their own reproductive health care decisions.”