MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood resumed providing abortion providers in Wisconsin on Monday after halting them for greater than a 12 months for the reason that U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Providers throughout the state stopped providing abortions following the June 2022 determination, fearing enforcement of an 1849 state regulation that seems to ban the process however had beforehand been nullified by the 1973 Roe ruling. A choose dominated final month that the 144-year-old regulation truly didn’t apply to medical abortions.

In gentle of the ruling, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin was once more providing abortions at clinics in Madison and Milwaukee on Monday. The group didn't say what number of abortions it anticipated to carry out however stated appointments at its Milwaukee clinic on Monday had been utterly stuffed inside 24 hours of saying that providers would resume.

The lawsuit difficult the 1849 regulation was introduced by Wisconsin’s Democratic lawyer normal and is anticipated to finish up in entrance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which flipped to liberal management final month.

Democrats, together with Gov. Tony Evers, praised the resumption of abortion providers. Meanwhile, anti-abortion rights teams within the state condemned the transfer and promised to proceed combating in courtroom for the process to be outlawed.

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