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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which currently has a liberal majority, to find that the state constitution secures a right to an abortion. UW Law professor Howard Schweber says the court will likely combine that petition with an earlier one brought by Attorney General Josh Kaul and could rule as early as this spring.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. The organization filed a petition Thursday asking the high court to find the law unconstitutional without letting any lower courts rule first.

A binding referendum proposed for the April ballot—asking about a ban on abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions in cases of rape and incest and to protect the life and health of the mother—is dividing Wisconsin Republicans.

Two vastly different views of abortion rights are on display in Wisconsin.

House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark joins Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) at a Milwaukee event.

Anti-abortion group says it will continue the controversial use of pregnancy resource centers.

A Wisconsin judge has reaffirmed her ruling this summer that state law permits consensual medical abortions, handing abortion rights advocates a massive victory.

Anti-abortion activists make speeches. Clinic supporter blows whistle.

Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions.

A judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to repeal Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban can continue. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling had nullified the ban but the court's decision last year to overturn that landmark ruling reactivated it.