Majority of Wisconsinites support abortion but GOP lawmakers refusing to repeal 1849 ban [View all]

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According to a Marquette University Law School poll released on Wednesday, two-thirds of Wisconsinites want abortion to be legal in all or most cases despite the state legislature upholding a sweeping ban on it.

The poll’s results show that 66% of Wisconsin voters want abortion to be legal in all or most cases, while 31% say it should be illegal under the same circumstances. Abortion became illegal at all stages of pregnancy in Wisconsin when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. There is only one narrow exception of saving the pregnant person’s life. At that time, an abortion ban from 1849 went back into effect in the Badger state and has stood, despite the efforts of Gov. Tony Evers (D) and the will of voters.

All 22 Republicans in the state Senate also voted against repealing the ban altogether on Wednesday. For over a year, they have tried to avoid directly voting on repealing the abortion ban. But they were forced to when the 11 Senate Democrats introduced an amendment to the state budget bill. The amendment would have restored access to abortion to the level it had been before the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision, which is a right to an abortion up to viability.

“Women know how much bleaker their future will be if they can’t access abortion,” said state Sen. Kelda Roys (D-Madison) on the Senate floor Wednesday. “This abortion ban has to go. Women deserve better than this.”




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