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Roe is on the ballot: Why the final word on protecting abortion rights is now in the hands of voters
President Joe Biden called for Congress on June 24 to pass laws protecting abortion rights and for voters to elect pro-rights candidates on “a sad day for the country” after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Biden pledged to fight for policies that...
One step closer to slavery: Without bodily autonomy Americans have now become state regulated livestock
The conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that expanded access to abortion nationwide. This is on top of decisions deeply wounding state’s rights to make gun regulations, to hold police civilly accountable for reading suspects their...
After inaction by legislature Attorney General Kaul files lawsuit to block Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion law
Governor Tony Evers and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced on June 28 a new lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s criminal abortion ban. The lawsuit comes just days after the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
With ruling against abortion rights the U.S. Supreme Court lost its last shred of Constitutional legitimacy
On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court’s history. In doing so, it unleashed the full force of a...
A Radical Ruling: The impact of Dobbs goes beyond the issue of abortion and the decision to overturn Roe
By Linda C. McClain, Professor of Law, Boston University; Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law and Professor of Law, Boston University; and Morgan Marietta, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell After half a century, Americans’...
Reggie Jackson: The racial imbalance of Milwaukee’s 2022 Residential Property Assessments
There has been little said by most elected officials about the readily apparent racial imbalance in the latest assessments of home values in Milwaukee. Overall, the city wide increase was 17.77%. By far the largest increases were in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods,...
Wisconsin school district accused of “false balance” over rejection of book on Japanese internment
A school board in southeastern Wisconsin has rejected a book recommended for use in a 10th-grade accelerated English class due in part to concerns that it lacked “balance” regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Curriculum Planning...
Rhetoric that robs society: Why it would cost the Federal government nothing to cancel student debt
Conservatives love to talk about how expensive canceling student debt would be. In the words of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, federal student debt cancellation, even when means-tested, is “regressive, inflationary, expensive and would likely do...
All doctors prosecuted for performing abortions in Wisconsin will be offered clemency by Governor Evers
Governor Tony Evers said he would offer clemency to doctors who are prosecuted for performing abortions in Wisconsin. The statement came during an abortion rights rally at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention on January 25 in which the first-term governor told...
Trump-appointed Supreme Court majority overturns Constitutional right of women to have an abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established abortion as a constitutional right. The decision by five of the Court’s nine justices will allow each state to set its own abortion laws, leading to a patchwork of access...
A post-Roe future: How Wisconsin will navigate a tangled chain of abortion laws dating back to 1849
About 50 abortion rights supporters stood on the bridge over the Wisconsin River into Sauk City on a sunny Saturday morning in mid-May. They held signs reading “CHOICE” and “PROTECT ROE v. WADE” and cheered when passing cars honked in support. Jennie Klecker brought...
Freshwater Quality: Lots of unfinished work after 50 years of effort to restore the Great Lakes
By Daniel Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them...
