Category: Abortion

About 15 percent of Wisconsin registered voters said abortion policy is their top issue for making their decision on which presidential candidate to support in November, according to the results of a Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday. Read More

Just 880 clinician-provided abortions took place in Wisconsin last year, down 87 percent from 2020, according to a report released Thursday by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. Read More

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is prepared to care for Iowans who may be seeking abortion care after the state’s six-week abortion ban took effect Monday, according to a representative for the family planning provider.  Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris — who has the backing of enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party — said Tuesday in Milwaukee she would sign into law a bill protecting access to abortion if elected to the White House.  Read More

Gov. Tony Evers’ administration wants to join a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin that argues that the state’s constitution protects access to abortion. The Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this month agreed to take up Planned Parenthood’s case. Read More

The Republican Party adopted a platform Monday in Milwaukee that supports the ability of states to act on limiting access to abortion, a departure from previous stances that called for more federal action. Read More

The Wisconsin Supreme Court last week agreed to hear two abortion-related cases, including an ask by Planned Parenthood to weigh in on whether the state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion.  Read More

The chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court has asked law enforcement to investigate the leak of a draft order showing the court will take up a lawsuit that asks it to declare that the state’s constitution protects access to abortion.  Read More

Attorney General Josh Kaul is defending a federal rule that requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for a range of conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth, including abortion.  Read More

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said Wednesday that abortion policy should be left up to individual states, not the federal government.  Read More

The Wisconsin Supreme Court should reject a request by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to consider whether the state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion, attorneys for Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski argued last week. Meanwhile, anti-abortion groups are asking the court to decline the request or allow them to intervene in the case.  Read More