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Contention over the state of Wisconsin\u2019s pre-Roe law prohibiting abortion could soon be decided by the state\u2019s Supreme Court, according to an <\/span>Associated Press report<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski, who is defending the pro-life statute \u00a7 940.04, filed a <\/span>petition<\/span><\/a> to bypass the lower courts and have the state\u2019s Supreme Court rule on the matter. He stated in his brief that the case will have far-reaching impacts for the state, and will eventually end up at the Supreme Court. Thus, Urmanski argued, continuing appeals at the lower court level \u201cwill only result in unnecessary expenditures of judicial time and resources,\u201d and \u201cwill needlessly delay resolution of a legal question of significant importance to the State.\u201d According to the <\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a>, Urmanski\u2019s filing states that Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul agrees that the Supreme Court should take up the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood took advantage of the filing to request the court <\/span>find the entire law unconstitutional<\/span><\/a>, even though Wisconsin\u2019s state constitution does not explicitly protect abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The text of the <\/span>law<\/span><\/a> in question reads: \u201cAny person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Attorney General Kaul initially challenged the statute days after the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>, arguing at first that the 175-year-old law was superseded by other statutes enacted in the 1980s that permit abortion until the time of \u201c<\/span>viability<\/span><\/a>,\u201d an <\/span>ever-shifting<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>unscientific<\/span><\/a> point at which the baby is deemed able to live outside the womb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In December, a Wisconsin judge reaffirmed an earlier ruling, issuing a <\/span>summary judgment<\/span><\/a> that the law did not apply to \u201cconsensual abortion,\u201d but only to cases of feticide \u2013 cases in which a pregnant woman is physically attacked in order to kill her baby, <\/span>Live Action News has reported<\/span><\/a>. Urmanski has appealed this decision on the lower court level as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the ruling, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life Heather Weininger <\/span>lamented that<\/span><\/a> \u201cA law that was enforced before the flawed decision of Roe is now one that pro-choice activists on the court are willing to use as a tool for their cause. Instead of providing true support for women and families in this post-<\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i> landscape, they are putting lives on the line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Without the 1849 pro-life protections in place, Planned Parenthood <\/span>resumed committing abortions in Sheboygan<\/span><\/a> later that same month<\/span>, ending the 15 month respite of taking babies\u2019 lives after the <\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i> decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The statute\u2019s future before the Supreme Court seems uncertain after the election of the outspoken pro-abortion Justice Janet Protasiewicz in April of 2023, flipping the balance in favor of a liberal majority. <\/span><\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contention over the state of Wisconsin\u2019s pre-Roe law prohibiting abortion could soon be decided by the state\u2019s Supreme Court, according to an Associated Press report. 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