Governor Evers vows to preserve reproductive rights in Wisconsin after abortion service announcement
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA. v. Casey and upending nearly 50 years of a constitutional right to abortion that Wisconsinites and Americans had relied upon for nearly five decades. The U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe threw reproductive freedom in Wisconsin into chaos. Wisconsin remained one of several states with an outdated criminal abortion ban on the books. The statute was enacted in 1849, before the American Civil War and at a time when Wisconsin...
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