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Home » Press Releases » Sen. Hesselbein: Statement on Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling
Senator Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton), the Democratic Senate Leader, released the following statement on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the 1849 near-total ban on abortion. “This is a hard won and important victory. It preserves access to abortion in Wisconsin and makes clear that the archaic 1849 law to ban abortion in most every case is unenforceable. This decision also hi...