The Wisconsin Supreme Court is still making a decision on whether a state law from 1849 could still be applicable.
The liberal-majority court heard oral arguments yesterday, hearing from state Attorney General Josh Kaul who brought the case to the court. He says more recent regulations passed by Wisconsin lawmakers should be law, not the pre-Civil War law. State Republicans have said the old law should be active again since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. A Dane County judge previously ruled that the law made killing a fetus without the mother’s consent illegal and doesn’t broadly apply to abortion. Now, the decision is up to the state’s highest court.
