Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up high-profile abortion rights cases

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday it will hear arguments in two high-profile abortion cases, one challenging a 175-year-old law that previously banned abortion in the state and another arguing that abortion rights are protected under the Wisconsin Constitution. In February, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) asking the court to declare abortion access a right protected by the state constitution. The petition followed Attorney General Josh Kaul’s challenge to an 1849 law that banned nearly all abortions in the state with no exception for rape or incest and went into effect...