Planned Parenthood wants to create a right to kill babies in abortions in another state.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin sued Thursday to have abortion declared a right under the state Constitution and to strike down two remaining pro-life limits. The case, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Ozanne, names district attorneys, the Medical Examining Board and the Board of Nursing.
Planned Parenthood argues that the physician-only rule and the 24-hour waiting period violate Wisconsin women’s right to liberty and bodily autonomy even though they are there to protect women’s lives and health.
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Wisconsin Right to Life said the suit asks judges to invent a right to abortion in the Constitution’s protections of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Abortion is legal in Wisconsin up to 20 weeks after fertilization, or to save the life or health of the mother. Only a physician may kill a baby in an abortion. The doctor who prescribes or provides the abortion must also conduct the required exam, and a woman must wait 24 hours after that exam before the abortion.
Abortion in the state was restored last year after a narrow Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling overturned a pro-life law that had effectively banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Wisconsin Right to Life said the new case is not about leaving a woman alone with her doctor. It is about writing abortion into the Constitution and clearing away the last limits on an industry that ends unborn lives.
“For years we’ve been told abortion is simply a matter ‘between a woman and her doctor.’ This lawsuit shows that was never true,” said Heather Weininger, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life. “Planned Parenthood isn’t asking to protect a private decision. It’s asking judges to hand it a permanent constitutional shield for its abortion-first business model.”
“This is about removing the last few guardrails standing between a woman and the procedure table,” Weininger said. “Reputable medical providers know good care means informed consent, time to ask questions, and follow-up — not rushing someone through a decision they can’t take back. Planned Parenthood wants an exemption from basic standards.”
“You cannot invoke our state Constitution’s right to life to defend an industry built on ending lives,” she said. “Wisconsin Right to Life will continue to defend the laws that protect Wisconsinites from an industry that has shown, time and again, that it cares more about its bottom line than the women and girls of Wisconsin.”
Dan Miller, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, said the filing matches a long-running political goal.
“We have known for decades that the Democrat agenda has been to legalize abortion without restriction up until and including birth,” Miller said. “Now, here in Wisconsin, they will settle for nothing less than making abortion a constitutional ‘right.’ There is no right to abortion in the Wisconsin Constitution. Any effort to find one is purely arbitrary. Pro-Life Wisconsin vows to fight the murder of preborn Wisconsinites who have no voice but the pro-life movement.”
