The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down the state’s 1849 abortion ban in a decision released Wednesday.

Despite the regaining of abortion access, Wisconsin “remained one of the top states for (Illinois) patient volume,” the ...

Delegates at the Wisconsin Republican Convention approved a resolution calling on the state to enforce the state's 1849 abortion law. Granted, it was just a symbolic vote May 17 with no legal ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks 1849 law, ... In April, a report found that the number of people who traveled across state lines to obtain an abortion declined in 2024. Comments.

When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their ...

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul speaks at a campaign stop, Oct. 27, 2022, in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Monday regarding the enforceability of an ...

Wisconsin lawmakers passed the state's first prohibition on abortion in 1849. That law stated that anyone who killed a fetus unless the act was to save the mother's life was guilty of manslaughter.

Wisconsin Republican delegates at their state convention approved a party resolution calling for the state to enforce an 1849 abortion law. The May 17 vote carries no authority, but it reflected a ...

The Brief. The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state’s 1849 abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions supersede it.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.