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Evers vetoes 4 abortion bills

By: Associated Press//June 21, 2019//

Evers vetoes 4 abortion bills

By: Associated Press//June 21, 2019//

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed four abortion bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.

One bill Evers vetoed Friday would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors who fail to give medical care in extremely rare instances in which a baby is born alive following an abortion attempt.

Other vetoed bills would have cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood; prohibited abortions that are sought because of a fetus’ race, sex or defects; and required providers to tell women seeking abortions using the drug mifepristone that the process may be reversed after the first dose.

Republicans had called on Evers to sign the bills, even though he ran as an abortion-rights advocate and had long promised to veto them.

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