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Planned Parenthood to resume offering abortions next week in Wisconsin, citing court ruling

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wisconsin-court-ruling-b4410175ec2541cbdd984c395c81eb4c

Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions.

Planned Parenthood to resume offering abortions next week in Wisconsin, citing court ruling

Planned Parenthood announced Thursday that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn't apply to abortions.

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treefrog

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This is great news though I don't know that the judges ruling is great.

Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child, any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or of such mother be hereby produced, be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.

Medice, drug, or substance...

or employ any instrument whatsoever.

However, the newer law should take precedent, as our AG has said.

Wisconsin Stat. § 940.15, enacted in 1985, made abortion a crime only after viability, and allowed abortion after viability “if the abortion is necessary to preserve the life or health of the woman, as determined by reasonable medical judgment of the woman’s attending physician.”

Anyway, I'm glad the ruling is encouraging Planned Parenthood to offer abortion access again and I hope that our now liberal SC will uphold the ruling or clarify that a nearly two century old law shouldn't take precedent over a much newer law.

autotldr

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

The resumption of abortions Monday at clinics in Milwaukee and Madison comes as the lawsuit challenging the state law continues in county court.

It is expected to eventually reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which flipped to liberal control on Aug. 1.

State Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, whose win in April gave liberals the majority for the first time in 15 years, ran as a supporter of abortion rights.

“This is critically important news for Wisconsin women and patients across our state who, for a year now, have been unable to access the healthcare they need when and where they need it,” he said in a statement.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit in Dane County days after Roe v. Wade was overturned, seeking to repeal the ban.

Her ruling, a victory for those fighting the ban, said that the legal language in the 1849 law doesn’t use the term “abortion” so it only prohibits attacking a woman in an attempt to kill her unborn child.

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