Attorneys and U.S. District Judge William Conley are seen during closing arguments in a remote bench trial over Wisconsin abortion access on Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. (CN) The burdens presented by Wisconsin’s abortion laws were balanced against national precedent governing abortion access in federal court on Thursday as a bench trial for Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the laws came to a close.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, or PPWI, brought its lawsuit in January 2019, contesting state laws which only allow doctors to perform two types of abortions and require women seeking abortion-inducing drugs to see the same doctor on two separate visits. The laws defined in the complaint as the physician-only, same-physician and physical-presence laws also mandate the same doctor who saw a patient during the first visit be physically present in the room when a woman is given an abortion pill during the second visit.
Controversial police reform bill seeks Baker’s approval Dec. 9, 2020 |
State House News Service photo by Sam Doran
GREATER SPRINGFIELD – State Rep. Carlos Gonzalez of Springfield, the chair of the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, is proud of the work he and his colleagues did on a new police reform bill, which is now on the desk of Gov. Charlie Baker.
At his press conference on Dec. 1, Baker said, “I’m glad the Legislature moved forward on this. I’m glad that this was something that was part of what they considered to be important to get done before the end of the session. But I can’t speak to the specifics of this until we have a chance to review it.”