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Continuing a legal battle that began with the nationwide reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Planned Parenthood on Thursday filed a petition urging the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to swiftly protect the right to abortion.
stopped providing abortions due to uncertainty over an 1849 state law. decided to resume abortion care last September, in response to Dane County Judge Diane Schlipper's July ruling that the law only applies to feticide, or the act of killing a fetus, and not consensual pre-viability abortion. Joel Urmanski, Sheboygan County's Republican district attorney, asked Schlipper to reconsider her decision, but she reaffirmed it in December. Urmanski on Tuesday asked the state's top court to bypass the appellate level and weigh in.
chief strategy officer Michelle Velasquez said in a statement that the group 'vehemently opposes' his view that the 175-year-old law took effect upon Roe's reversal but 'we do agree with DA Urmanski that bypass to the Wisconsin Supreme Court is appropriate, as this issue is of statewide importance and that requiring this case to be first decided by the Court of Appeals will only result in needless delay.
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