When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically, abortion opponents were arguing that with the demise of Roe v Wade the year before,

The liberal majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, backing a lower court’s decision to overturn the 19th-century law. The 4-3 ruling ends three years of legal fighting over the issue,

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban in a 4-3 ruling, saying that it was superseded by a more recent state law criminalizing abortions only in cases when a fetus is viable outside the womb.