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The Democratic attorney general hopeful Josh Kaul says he would have to study Wisconsin's abortion ban before deciding whether to defend it in court.
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Read More »Supreme Court voids part of pregnancy-center law
The U.S. Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution.
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Read More »Walker not interested heartbeat abortion ban
Gov. Scott Walker is signaling he's not interested in pursuing a six-week abortion ban.
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Read More »Walker signs new abortion coverage, breast tissue laws (UPDATE)
Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation on Tuesday that generally prohibits state health insurance from covering abortions for state workers.
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Read More »US Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis-pregnancy centers
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free-speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis-pregnancy centers.
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Read More »Legislature making dash to finish line
The Wisconsin Legislature plans to vote this week on several key bills that would lower insurance costs, cuts taxes and toughen welfare requirements, many of which are a part of Gov. Scott Walker's re-election platform.
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Read More »Man accused of trying to kill his unborn child
A central Wisconsin man is accused of trying to kill his unborn child by spiking the water bottle of the woman carrying the fetus with abortion pills.
Read More »Legislature takes up anti-abortion bills
Anti-abortion proposals that have failed to gain enough support among Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature were back on Thursday, but it remained unclear whether they had enough backing to become law.
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Read More »Abortions decrease for seventh straight year
The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin has dropped for the seventh straight year.
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Read More »$50 million bond set in forced abortion attempt
A judge in Outagamie County has set $50 million bond for a man accused of trying to cause his girlfriend to miscarry her child nearly a decade ago.
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Read More »Bill banning abortion coverage for state workers advances
A Republican-backed proposal that would ban the coverage of abortions for Wisconsin state workers has cleared the state Assembly Health Committee.
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Read More »Democrats ask Ryan, Walker to rethink Planned Parenthood
Democratic legislators say House Speaker Paul Ryan's plans to cut off Planned Parenthood's funding will leave 50,000 Wisconsinites without easy access to reproductive health care.
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Read More »Democrats defend abortion access with resolution
Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution imploring their Republican colleagues not to restrict abortion access.
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Read More »Taxpayers to pay $1.6 million to attorneys in abortion case
Wisconsin taxpayers will pay $1.6 million to attorneys who represented Planned Parenthood and others in a lawsuit that successfully challenged a law requiring hospital admitting privileges for doctors who perform abortions.
Read More »Planned Parenthood to no longer offer abortions in Appleton (UPDATE)
Planned Parenthood said Monday that it won't reopen its abortion clinic in Appleton because the facility can't meet stricter security protocols the organization adopted after the deadly attack on one of its clinics in Colorado last year.
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Read More »Planned Parenthood calls for repealing admitting privileges law (UPDATE)
Planned Parenthood and Democratic lawmakers called on the Republican-led Wisconsin Legislature Thursday to strike an abortion restriction from the state's legal code even though the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down last week, rendering it unenforceable.
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Read More »Supreme Court denies Wis. abortion appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Wisconsin seeking to put in place restrictions on abortion clinics that were struck down by lower courts.
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Read More »US Supreme Court’s abortion ruling could mean end of similar Wis. law (UPDATE)
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics in the court's biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.
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Read More »Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill's sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
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Read More »Court fumbles with abortion-case ruling
The Court of Appeals rejected Planned Parenthood’s bid for declaratory judgment on the construction of two abortion statutes, and in the process damaged the idea of justiciability.
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Read More »Schimel seeks Supreme Court review of decision invalidating state’s admitting-privileges law
The Wisconsin Attorney General is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision invalidating a state law that had required abortion doctors to obtain hospital-admitting privileges to continue their practice.
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Read More »Abortion debate returns to depleted US Supreme Court
The abortion debate is returning to the U.S. Supreme Court in the midst of a raucous presidential campaign and less than three weeks after Justice Antonin Scalia's death.
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Read More »State appeals court clarifies ‘webcam abortion’ law
Planned Parenthood lacks standing to file a lawsuit challenging a Wisconsin law governing "webcam" abortions, a divided state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »Activists predict abortion will be a hot issue in campaigns
With a deeper-than-ever split between Republicans and Democrats over abortion, activists on both sides of the debate foresee a 2016 presidential campaign in which the nominees tackle the volatile topic more aggressively than in past elections.
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Read More »Federal court rules state’s abortion law unconstitutional
A Wisconsin law that requires abortion providers to get admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday.
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Read More »US justices agree to hear first abortion case since 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics.
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Read More »Federal appeals court judges question state’s abortion law
A federal appeals court panel heard arguments Thursday over a Wisconsin law requiring doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, with the presiding judge saying there is "not a rational basis" for the requirement.
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Read More »Republicans tweak fetal tissue bill to allow some research (UPDATE)
Republicans working on a bill that would prohibit research using tissue from aborted fetuses announced Friday they've amended the measure to allow some scientific work.
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Read More »Walker signs abortion ban bill; court challenge expected (UPDATE)
Gov. Scott Walker, one week after launching his bid for the 2016 presidential nomination, signed a bill Monday that outlaws non-emergency abortions at or beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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