By: Derek Hawkins//December 1, 2015//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case No.: 15-1736
Case Name: Planned Parenthood of WI v. Brad D. Schimel
Officials: POSNER, MANION, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges
Pertinent Practice Areas: Abortion Law – Constitutionality
Permanent injunction granted preventing enforcement of WI statute that placed limitations on doctors performing abortions within the state.
“These studies have found that the rate of complications is below 1 percent; in the case of complications requiring hospital admissions it is one-twentieth of 1 percent. The rate of complications for second-trimester surgical abortions is slightly higher—1.3 percent. Anna C. Frick et al., “Effect of Prior Cesarean Delivery on Risk of Second-Trimester Surgical Abortion Complications,” 115 Obstetrics & Gynecology 760 (2010). In the five-year period 2009 to 2013, only 12 women who had abortions at clinics in Wisconsin experienced complications requiring transfer from clinic to hospital. Fifteen additional women who had received abortions at a Planned Parenthood clinic and left the clinic without apparent complications later sought treatment at a hospital. The record does not contain a comparable figure for the AMS clinic. There is no evidence that any of these women received inadequate hospital care because the doctors who had performed their abortions lacked admitting privileges”
Affirmed.