WI: Republicans and groups push for anti-abortion bills at Senate hearing
Wisconsin Republicans and anti-abortion groups pushed for legislation that would change the state’s 1849 law and a slate of other abortion-related bills at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
The Senate Licensing, Constitution and Federalism committee heard testimony on the bills just a day after Planned Parenthood restarted abortion services in Wisconsin. The organization announced the decision last week, saying it was based on a July ruling by Dane County Judge Diane Schlipper that Wisconsin’s 1849 law, which has been widely interpreted as a criminal abortion ban, does not apply to abortions.
Committee chair Andre Jacque referenced Planned Parenthood’s decision Tuesday, saying that SB 300, a bill he co-authored, “is especially timely in light of last week’s announcement by Planned Parenthood that they would resume performing abortions in Wisconsin, again, beginning yesterday.”
The bill would prohibit anyone employed by the state, a state agency or a local governmental unit from providing abortion services, promoting or encouraging abortion services, making abortion referrals, or training others or receiving training in performing abortions while acting within the scope of his or her employment.
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