MADSION Wis. – A Dane County judge reaffirmed her previous ruling that state law permits consensual medical abortions. This was another setback for the abortion ban movement that had reveled since 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the 60-year-old Roe v. Wade decision that had largely outlawed abortion bans. The Dane County judge, Diane Schlipper, had said in her original ruling that a 1985 Wisconsin law permitting abortions before fetuses can survive outside the womb trumped the abortion ban in a 170-year-old state law. That first Schlipper decision, in July, was challenged quickly by anti-abortion interests. In her new 14-page response Judge Schlipper said the challengers failed to show that she misapplied state law.
