Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election this spring will decide just one seat, but the contest already is shaping up as one of the most costly and contentious battles of the new year – with the control of the seven-member court and the fate of a 19th century abortion ban hanging in the balance.

In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among women who lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford made a campaign stop in Wausau on Thursday afternoon to rally supporters as the race continues to gain attention nationally. The rally was held at the Marathon County Democratic office and the liberal candidate for the high court spoke to voters about issues such as abortion,

On June 22, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established a half-century before in Roe v. Wade, opening the door to state abortion bans across the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to abortion clinics and limit harassment of patients in a challenge brought by anti-abortion activists who have argued that their free speech rights were being violated.

The Supreme Court turned away two appeals asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old decision that allowed for buffer zones around abortion clinics.

The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court accused the court's liberal majority, all women, of being “driven by their emotions” during oral arguments in an abortion rights case — comments his challenger's campaign on Friday called “disgusting.

The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer zones around abortion clinics – a move that, for now, will leave those restrictions in place.

For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the ... upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.