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Home » Press Releases » WisDems: Reminder: Schimel worked to overturn reproductive freedom and supports enforcing 1849 Criminal Abortion Ban
“The Wisconsin 1849 law is valid – there’s nothing in that law to make it invalid.” MADISON, Wis. — Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a criminal abortion ban which Brad Schimel has long supported enforcing and recently called “valid.” In 2012, Schimel signed onto, and supported, the Wisconsin Right to Life position that Wisconsin’s pre-Civil War criminal abortion ban shoul...