Top GOP lawmakers remain mum on plans if the constitutional right to an abortion is overturned — and state law banning nearly all abortions takes effect.
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Are abortions ever medically necessary? Wisconsin doctors say yes.
Life-threatening conditions can develop or be exacerbated during pregnancy — and childbirth itself is high risk for some patients, they say.
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While Wisconsin abortions declined, more women used surgical method
Despite an overall decline in abortions by Wisconsin women in 2012, the number of surgical abortions rose by 8 percent last year — the first increase since the state started tracking abortion methods in 1998, records show.
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Wisconsin law increases abortion delays, risk
Planned Parenthood has not provided abortions by medication since April, claiming a new abortion law’s language was too vague to comply with. As a result, many women have had surgical abortions instead and face delays in making appointments.
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Abortion pill restrictions part of nationwide push
Medication abortions have become more prevalent nationally in the past few years, and laws targeting them are sweeping state legislatures across the country.