Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin to resume abortion care after judge’s ruling

Announcement comes after July ruling that 1849 abortion law does not apply in significant victory for abortion rights in midwest

Planned Parenthoods in Wisconsin will resume abortions on Monday 18 September, the organization announced on Thursday, after a prolonged legal battle over a Wisconsin 19th-century abortion law that has blocked abortions across the state.

The announcement that abortions will resume at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin clinics in Milwaukee and Madison comes months after a judge ruled that a 1849 law does not apply to what she called “consensual abortions”. Instead, the law bans people from committing feticide, or killing a fetus, usually “by assaulting and battering the mother”, the Dane county judge Diane Schlipper wrote in her July ruling.

“There is no such thing as an ‘1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin,” Schlipper ruled.