Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Could Decide Fate of the State's 1849 Abortion Ban.

[RandySF]

Wisconsin women have lived without reproductive freedom for the better part of a year, meaning thousands of them have either had to travel out of state for abortion care, obtain an illegal abortion, or be forced to give birth when they don’t want to.

That’s the present reality in Wisconsin, where an extreme abortion ban passed in 1849 is the law of the land. The law is so extreme that it makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Under the ban, abortions are only allowed in order to save the mother’s life, and even then, only when it “is advised by 2 other physicians as necessary, to save the life of the mother.”

In other words: If you’re a pregnant woman in Wisconsin and you have a life-threatening complication from your pregnancy, a law written roughly 150 years before you were born requires two doctors—whom you’ve probably never met before—to agree that your medical condition is life-threatening enough for you to get an abortion before your own provider can treat you and prevent you from dying.

Last summer, a Wisconsin woman bled for more than 10 days due to an incomplete miscarriage because emergency room staff would not remove the fetal tissue over concerns about violating the draconian abortion ban.


https://upnorthnewswi.com/2023/03/10/wisconsin-supreme-court-1849-abortion-ban/

[lkinwi]

1. This happened to my mother during the 1940's in Wisconsin.

She was vomiting daily for weeks and had dropped so much weight that her doctor thought she was going to die. A group of doctors decided that she would be allowed to have an abortion and live. Mom and Dad were always angry that they had to depend on a group of doctors to decide whether Mom lived or died and were always vocally pro-choice.

Whenever I hear anti-choice rhetoric, I let them know that I probably wouldn’t be here had it not been for an abortion and relay my mom’s story. The subject usually gets changed rather quickly.