A Wisconsin judge is set to hear arguments Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the state's 174-year-old abortion ban.
seeking to repeal the ban. Kaul argues that the 1849 law is so old it was essentially adopted without the people's consent; or alternately, that narrower restrictions on abortion enacted in Wisconsin in 1985 supersede the older statute. The 1985 legislation permits terminating pregnancies up until a fetus can survive outside the womb, while the older law outlawed abortion except to save the mother’s life.
Urmanski argues that Kaul lacks standing to sue because the abortion ban doesn’t hurt him. Urmanski also rebuts Kaul’s argument that the ban is unenforceable because it’s so old. State laws don’t lose their effect through disuse, Urmanski said. The case carries so much weight that no matter what happens in Schlipper's courtroom or at the appellate level it will almost certainly end at the state Supreme Court. That plays to Kaul’s advantage becauseafter Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz is sworn in this August.
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