Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has struck down an 1849 law banning abortions, making the procedure legal and accessible in ...

Wisconsin Catholic Conference Executive Director Barbara Sella condemned the decision, saying that “the court’s majority has ...

State lawmakers adopted the ban in 1849, making it a felony when anyone other than the mother “intentionally destroys the ...

Wisconsin's Supreme Court upholds abortion rights, nullifying a pre-suffrage era law. County Executive David Crowley applauds ...

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a 1849 statute that banned nearly all abortions is unenforceable. The majority held that the state legislature 'impliedly repealed' the statute ...

For several years, while Wisconsin's abortion law was in flux, providers stopped offering services and at least two of them ...

In a 4–3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s 19th-century abortion ban, dating back to the ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority struck down the state's 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating ...

The Court’s majority opinion, authored by Justice Rebecca Dallet and joined by Justices Ann Walsh Bradley, Jill Karofsky and ...

In a 4-3 decision, justices ruled that newer legislation supersedes the Civil War-era ban that made abortion a felony, while Republican leaders criticize the court for overstepping.

This is why non-regular, non-presidential, non-midterm elections count. On Wednesday, the state of Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that a 176-year-old law banning abortion was no longer valid. The ...

We conclude that comprehensive legislation enacted over the last 50 years regulating in detail the ‘who, what, where, when, and how’ of abortion so thoroughly covers the entire subject of abortion ...