In this picture is the Madison South Health Center that is owned and run by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
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Planned Parenthood will resume abortions in Wisconsin next week, after a state court ruled that a 174- year-old criminal law does not prohibit the treatment.
Abortion services will resume on Monday at Planned Parenthood’s centers in Milwaukee and Madison, according to a declaration provided Thursday by the company’s Wisconsin chapter. Patients can begin reserving consultations Thursday, according to the declaration.
“In consultation with attorneys, physicians, partners and stakeholders, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is confident in our decision to resume abortion care in Wisconsin,” Tanya Atkinson, CEO of Planned Parenthood Wisconsin, stated in a video declaration Thursday.
Planned Parenthood momentarily suspended abortion services in Wisconsin on the very same day the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade judgment that for almost 50 years had actually secured the treatment as a constitutional right.
The Supreme Court’s choice in June 2022 to eliminate federal constitutional defenses for abortion raised unpredictability in Wisconsin over whether companies might be prosecuted under an 1849 law that criminalized the treatment as murder.
WisconsinGov Tony Evers and state Attorney General Josh Kaul, both Democrats, submitted a claim challenging the 1849 criminal law. A state judge ruled in July that the 174- year-old law does not restrict consensual medical abortions, however rather targets anybody who eliminates a fetus by assaulting the mom.
“This pre-Roe statute says nothing about abortion—there is no such thing as an ‘1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin,” Dane County Circuit Court Judge Diane Schlipper composed in her July judgment that turned down a movement submitted by a county district lawyer to dismiss the case.
The lawsuits over the 1849 is continuous and will likely reach the state Supreme Court, where liberals now have a 4-3 bulk after Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the bench in April.
In March, Democrats in the Wisconsin state legislature presented a costs to reverse the 1849 restriction. Republicans have a bulk in both legal chambers.
Correction: Tanya Atkinson is CEO of Planned ParenthoodWisconsin An earlier variation misspelled her name.
