% >>> TODAY I AM ANNOUNCING THAT
% WE'RE TAKING THIS FIGHT BACK TO
% THE COURTS.
% I'VE AUTHORIZED ATTORNEY GENERAL
% JOSH KAUL TO FILE A LAWSUIT
% TODAY THAT IS A DIRECT CHALLENGE
% OF WISCONSIN'S 1849 CRIMINAL
% ABORTION BAN.
% AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF
% WISCONSINITES SUPPORTED ROW --
% ROE IN MAKING SURE ABORTIONS
% REMAIN SAFE AND LEGAL IN
% WISCONSIN.%>> TO IT THE RAMIF
ICATIONS IN
% WISCONSIN IN THE WAKE OF THE
% U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION
% OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE.
% BECAUSE THE HIGH COURT SENT IT
% BACK TO THE STATES, WISCONSIN
% NOW REVERTS TO A STATUTE PASSED
% IN 1849 THAT PROHIBITS ABORTION.
% BUT THERE HAVE BEEN ADDITIONAL
% AND CONFLICTING STATE ABORTION
% LAWS PASSED SINCE THEN.
% IN A MOMENT WE'LL HEAR FROM
% ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH KAUL WHO
% SAYS THE 19th CENTURY BAN ON
% ABORTION IS UNENFORCEABLE
% BECAUSE OF DUELING LAWS ON THE
% BOOKS.
% >>> BUT FIRST NATHAN TAKES US
% THROUGH THE BRO DEPRESSION OF
% ABORTION -- PROGRESSION OF
% ABORTION LAWS IN WISCONSIN.
% >> Reporter: THE 1849 LAW
% PROHIBITS ABORTION OUTRIGHT,
% MAKING IT WHY -- ILLEGAL TO
% PERFORM AN ABORTION AFTER A
% MOTHER FEELS FETAL MOVEMENT,
% UNLESS IT IS TO SAVE THE
% MOTHER'S LIFE.
% UNDER THAT LAW, ANY PERSON WHO
% PERFORMS AN ABORTION COULD BE
% GUILTY OF A FELONY.
% AS THE CHANGES OVER THE YEARS,
% IN 1858 A NEW LAW MADE IT A
% FELONY TO ABORT AT ANY POINT
% AFTER CONCEPTION.
% MORE THAN 100 YEARS AFTER THAT,
% THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED IN
% ROE V. WADE.
% THE 1973 CASE HELD THAT THE
% CONSTITUTION PROTECTS A WOMAN'S
% RIGHT TO AN ABORTION PRIOR TO
% THE VIABILITY OF THE FETUS.
% INTERESTEDE ROE THE DECISION TO
% TERMINATE THE PREGNANCY WAS
% SOLELY AT THE DISCRETION OF THE
% WOMAN DURING THE FIRST THREE
% MONTHS.
% WISCONSIN'S POST-ROE LIMITS
% INCLUDED A LAW PROHIBITING
% ABORTIONS OF A 20 WEEKS EXCEPT
% FOR THE LIFE OR HEALTH OF THE
% MOTHER.
% MORE UPDATES TO THE STATUTED
% CONTINUED.
% A SET OF LAWS FROM 2017 PUT
% RESTRICTIONS INCLUDING A WAITING
% PERIOD AND MANDATORY
% ULTRASOUNDS.
% [CHANTING]%>> Reporter: SO WH
EN THE U.S.
% SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN
% ROLFED, THE -- ROE V. WADE, THE
% DECISION LEFT THE OLD AND NEW
% LAWS ON ON THE BOOKS IN