Abortion
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The surprising reason this mom doesn’t want Trump to defund Planned Parenthood of WI
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says a Trump administration would “defund” the non-profit organization that helped this Wisconsin mom have a healthy baby.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court takes up the case to protect abortion rights
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to interpret the state constitution as it relates to making decisions about whether and when to have a child, including the right to have an abortion
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Opinion: Comstock is Trump and the GOP’s backdoor to a national abortion ban
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
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Here are three ways the outcome of Wisconsin’s US Senate election will impact your life
At their recent statewide TV debate, Sen. Tammy Baldwin and challenger Eric Hovde covered 17 different topics. Here are some that affect Wisconsinites in deeply personal ways. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is running for a third six-year term in the US Senate. She is being challenged by Republican banker Eric Hovde. Here are three…
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women’s health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
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Opinions: Letters about Derrick Van Orden’s temper and Bryan Steil putting healthcare providers at risk of prosecution
A sample of reader opinions sent to us in the closing weeks of the campaign.
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New report: estimated 134 rape-induced pregnancies happened daily in Trump abortion-ban states
A new analysis by the Center for American Progress Action shows the devastating day-to-day reality of state abortion bans.
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Opinion: Next year, your closest abortion clinic could be abroad
If Republicans take control of the White House this November, they will stop at nothing to pass a national abortion ban.
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Jodi Habush Sinykin sees potential in a newly-drawn State Senate district where voters are tired of the same old extremism
The Democratic challenger wants to protect women’s healthcare choices while Republican incumbent Sen. Duey Stroebel supports treating an 1849 law as a total abortion ban.
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Kamala Harris wants to end the Senate filibuster to restore national abortion rights
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
