{"id":315925,"date":"2024-07-21T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=315925"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T20:26:40","slug":"wisconsin-gov-ag-supreme-court-constitutional-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wisconsin-gov-ag-supreme-court-constitutional-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin gov and AG join suit asking WI Supreme Court to declare abortion a ‘constitutional right’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and state Attorney General Josh Kaul have joined a Planned Parenthood lawsuit seeking to have abortion codified as a right in the state constitution.<\/p>\n

Last month, a draft order<\/a> from the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, requesting for the Court to declare abortion a constitutional right. \u201cDespite all the progress that\u2019s been made to resume abortion care since the overturning of (Roe v. Wade), the protections afforded under Wisconsin\u2019s Constitution remain unknown,\u201d Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin president and CEO Tanya Atkinson told reporters at the time. \u201cWisconsinites deserve the ability to make decisions that shape their future to make decisions about if or when they become a parent. And they deserve to know this right is protected by our state Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Evers and Kaul have announced<\/a> they will be joining the lawsuit, in addition to another lawsuit filed earlier this year<\/a> by Kaul, which asks the Supreme Court to rule on a pre-Roe v. Wade<\/em> law which reads, “Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony.\u201d<\/p>\n