{"id":303027,"date":"2023-12-07T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303027"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:51:13","slug":"wisconsin-judge-preborn-protected-1849-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wisconsin-judge-preborn-protected-1849-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin judge rules preborn children cannot be protected using 1849 law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Wisconsin judge has ruled that an 1849 law does not actually protect preborn children from abortion, setting up a potential challenge in the state Supreme Court. Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper ruled<\/a> that the 174-year-old law applies to feticide (an act of homicide against a fetus committed by someone other than the child’s mother), but not abortion (initiated by the child’s mother).<\/p>\n

The statute<\/a> is worded: Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony.<\/em> Yet Schlipper said<\/a> that this wording referred to someone attacking a pregnant woman and causing a miscarriage rather than abortion.<\/p>\n

WARNING: Disturbing photos below.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul previously sued to block prosecution of the law, and he celebrated Schlipper’s ruling in a statement. “Freedom wins. Equality wins. Women\u2019s health wins,” he said. “This ruling is a momentous victory, and we are prepared to defend it \u2014 and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.”<\/p>\n

Apparently, this is “freedom,” “equality,” and “women’s health”:<\/p>\n

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Photo of 10-week aborted baby: Reddit user brazen 177<\/p><\/div>\n

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Face of a preborn child with feet, hand, rib cage, blood and placenta. Aborted at 21 weeks using the D&E abortion procedure.<\/p><\/div>\n

With the ruling, Wisconsin will return to its laws prior to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Abortion will now be legal through 20 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n