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An April Marquette poll found that 54% of Wisconsin voters would support a national abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and the life or health of the mother ...
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit challenging the law in 2022. He argued that a 1985 Wisconsin law that prohibits abortion after a fetus reaches the point where it can survive outside the womb supersedes the ban. Some babies can survive with medical help after 21 weeks of gestation.
Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide nullified it. Legislators never repealed the ban, however, and conservatives have argued the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe two years ago reactivated it. Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit challenging the law in 2022. He argued that a 1985 Wisconsin law that allows ...
A judge refused Friday to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban, keeping the case inching toward a final decision in a perennial presidential battleground state ...
What abortion laws exist in Wisconsin? For now, the state goes back to the laws that were in place before the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Care decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion, led to Planned Parenthood stopping abortions in Wisconsin. The group cited the state's 1849 law, which was widely viewed as banning the procedure.
Wisconsin's highest court is expected to agree to hear a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood asking it to recognize a right to abortion in the state, news site Wisconsin Watch reported on Wednesday ...
After the passage of 2013 Wisconsin Act 37, which would have required all Wisconsin abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges, [26] the law was almost immediately enjoined by U.S. district judge William M. Conley, in response to a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. [27]