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

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

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 On Wednesday, the state of Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled that a 176-year-old law banning abortion was no longer valid.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 ...

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

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 ...

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Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including ...

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

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

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

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