The progressive majority of the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin suspended on Wednesday (2), by four votes to three, a law that unrestrictedly prohibited abortion in the state of the Midwest of the United States.
The decision was taken in plenary after a request for lawsuit by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, who argued that the state already has legislations that restrict abortion until “fetal viability between 21 and 24 weeks”.
The decision did not surprise legal experts, as the court is dominated by magistrates with a left -wide political inclination, although the state was won – by a small margin – by Donald Trump and the Republicans in the last presidential election.
The law, created in 1849, lost its validity for almost fifty years after the federal jurisprudence of the ROE vs. case. Wade in 1973, which prevented states from banning abortion until fetal viability. In 2022, ROE vs. Wade was revoked by the Supreme Court of the United States and since then each state could legislate separately on the subject.
However, another 1985 deliberation overlaps the legislation created “by white men who had power in the fourteenth century,” according to the judge of the Wisconsin Superior Court, Rebecca Dallet. “This legislation [de 1985] It covers so completely the subject of abortion that was clearly conceived as a substitute for the almost total ban on abortion in the nineteenth century, “Dallet said during his argument.
Heather Weininger, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, a pro-profit pro-life organization, called the decision “deeply disappointing.” She said the liberals failed to point to any law explicitly revoked the 1849 ban. “To say that a revocation is implicit is legislating from the bench,” she said in an interview with the vehicle The Associated Press.
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