A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that Republican state lawmakers can't intervene in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging certain Wisconsin abortion restrictions.

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The Republican-controlled state Assembly has passed a bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would provide more access to birth control.

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The Republican-controlled state Assembly is expected to pass a bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would broaden birth control access.

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Wisconsin Republicans are renewing their attempt to ban the use of aborted fetal tissue for research or any other purpose.

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Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed four abortion bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.

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Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature was poised Wednesday to send four anti-abortion bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has vowed to veto all of them.

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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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The state Assembly Health Committee has approved a series of anti-abortion bills, setting up a floor vote next week.

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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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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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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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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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Republican legislators have hired their own attorneys to represent them in a federal lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's abortion restrictions.

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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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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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Gov. Scott Walker is signaling he's not interested in pursuing a six-week abortion ban.

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Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation on Tuesday that generally prohibits state health insurance from covering abortions for state workers.

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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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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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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.

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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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The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin has dropped for the seventh straight year.

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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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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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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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Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution imploring their Republican colleagues not to restrict abortion access.

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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.

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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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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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