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The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to pass a so-called "born alive" anti-abortion bill passed in other states that President Donald Trump has touted.
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Read More »Wisconsin Assembly poised to approve ‘born alive’ bill
Wisconsin committee signs off on anti-abortion bills
The state Assembly Health Committee has approved a series of anti-abortion bills, setting up a floor vote next week.
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Read More »Wisconsin GOP renews anti-abortion push
The decades-old fight over abortion rights in Wisconsin is heating up again as Republican legislators push a quartet of bills designed to curtail the practice despite Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' opposition.
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Read More »Wisconsin GOP renews anti-abortion push
The decades-old fight over abortion rights in Wisconsin is heating up again as Republican legislators push a quartet of bills designed to curtail the practice despite Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' opposition. Here's a look at the key elements in the debate:
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Read More »Judge denies Republicans’ attempt to join abortion lawsuit
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Wisconsin Republican lawmakers' attempt to intervene in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging the state's abortion restrictions, saying in a strongly worded order that they presented no evidence that the Democratic attorney general wouldn't adequately defend the laws.
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Read More »Evers promises to veto Republican-backed abortion bill
Gov. Tony Evers says he will veto a Republican-authored bill that could send doctors to prison for life if they fail to give medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion attempt.
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Read More »Republicans hire outside attorneys in abortion lawsuit
Republican legislators have hired their own attorneys to represent them in a federal lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's abortion restrictions.
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Read More »Kaul doesn’t know if he would defend abortion ban
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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