- Protecting each person’s right to make their own reproductive health care decisions.
- Repealing the 1849 criminal statute
- Removing barriers to medication abortion:
- Allowing patients to have telehealth visits to receive abortion care
- Allowing Advanced Nurse Practitioners to provide abortion care
- Prohibiting bans on health insurance coverage for abortion care in public employee and state health plans.
- Ensuring patient counseling for reproductive health care is accurate and aligns with requirements for all other health care.
- Ensuring that decision making in medical emergencies in abortion care centers patients and providers, instead of political preferences
- Repealing statutes that state and federal courts have struck down.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin's care is under attack.
The President has signed a budget bill which includes steep cuts to Medicaid -- including a provision to "defund" Planned Parenthood. While this bill has passed, many of its provisions are not in effect at this time.
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will always help as many people as possible for as long as possible.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin is monitoring this issue closely, and will continue to fight for access to affordable reproductive health care — no matter what.
We know politicians won’t stop with cutting Medicaid and defunding Planned Parenthood. Make no mistake -- they want a national abortion ban.
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Wisconsinites rely on Planned Parenthood health centers for care, and we will fight for every single one of them.
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PPAWI Restore, Protect, Expand Legislative Agenda
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- The Dobbs decision in June 2022 forced the suspension of abortion care in Wisconsin.
- AG Kaul filed a lawsuit challenging the 1849 law saying it was unenforceable.
- In 2023 a Dane County Circuit Court Judge ruled the 1849 law does not apply to consensual abortions and is not enforceable. The ruling allowed PPWI to resume abortion care in Milwaukee, Dane and Sheboygan - the three counties it provided care pre-Dobbs.
- The case is up on appeal and a petition for bypass is pending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
PROTECT
PPWI filed a lawsuit in February 2024 asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to find that the Wisconsin Constitution guarantees the right to bodily autonomy, including the right to abortion care. Protecting access to abortion and birth control is essential to ensuring everyone has the ability to make decisions about their reproductive health and lives.
EXPAND
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin is working to eliminate barriers to ensure access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services and advance sexual and reproductive health equity.
- Repeal 940.04 (The 1849 law)
Repealing the 1849 law would take it off Wisconsin’s books and inoculate against the future reversal of any favorable court decision interpreting this law as not applying to abortion. - Repeal 253.105: telemedicine ban, same physician, physician only
Wisconsin statutes ban telemedicine for abortion care. Statutes also only allow doctors to provide abortion care, even when the abortion is done through medication. This means that unlike with other medications, health care professionals like Physician Assistants and Advanced Nurse Practitioners cannot prescribe or dispense abortion medications. State law also requires the same doctor for both appointments for medication abortion. These laws are not based in medicine and were created as barriers rather than adding safety or security to the process. They make it costlier, more time consuming, more difficult to access abortion care in Wisconsin. - Repeal 253.10(2)(3)(c): repeal 24 hour waiting period
Wisconsin statutes require a 24hr waiting period between a first appointment and a procedure or medication abortion appointment. This barrier provides no safety or security to the process and only serves to make it costlier, more time consuming, and more difficult to access abortion care in WI. People should be trusted with their healthcare decisions - Right to receive and provide medically accurate information
Wisconsin statutes mandate information be shared with patients seeking abortion care. The statute does not mandate that the information shared be medically accurate. This is a dangerous and unnecessary practice that does not provide any safety measures for patients and providers. - Post-partum coverage to 12 months
Wisconsinites deserve real post-partum coverage and care. Current Wisconsin laws cap coverage for new mothers at 60 days and legislators failed to pass a bipartisan bill expanding post-partum coverage last session. Expanding coverage will improve lives and health outcomes for Wisconsin families. - Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education
Wisconsin law does not currently require comprehensive and age appropriate sexual and reproductive health education. The Healthy Youth Act, introduced last session, can change that so Wisconsin’s youth can receive the information they need to lead healthy lives. - Constitutional right to abortion
The Dobbs decision in 2022 took away federal protections for abortion care, leaving the decision up to the states. While abortion care is legal in WI, there is no constitutional protection. State constitutional protection can help prevent further attacks on reproductive freedoms. - Constitutional/statutory right to contraception
There is no federal or state right to contraception (birth control). Establishing state constitutional protection and rights to contraception will secure reproductive freedoms and allow Wisconsinites to live full lives. - GAHT care protections
Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy is an important piece of health care for transgender people. Wisconsinites deserve protected access to the healthcare they need to live their lives fully.
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Abortion Appointments
If you need abortion care, PPWI has three locations currently available. Please schedule an appointment in Milwaukee, Madison, and Sheboygan.
The Fight for Reproductive Freedom Continues
This is a video response from PPAWI President following the November 2024 Election
The Fight for Reproductive Freedom Continues
A message from PPAWI President Tanya Atkinson, November 2024
While the loss of the presidential election hits hard, over 80 percent of Americans believe abortion care should be legal, and the decision whether to end a pregnancy is best made between a patient and their doctor because at no point in a pregnancy is a politician more qualified than the woman to make necessary health care decisions.
WI Republicans Pass 14-week Abortion Ban
On Jan 26, 2024, Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Assembly passed a 14-week abortion ban.
While Governor Evers has vowed to veto any bill that restricts reproductive rights and freedoms, the consistent attack from legislative Republicans on those rights and freedoms is disruptive to health care, and PPAWI will continue to work toward protecting and expanding abortion care in Wisconsin.
U.S Supreme Court Takes Away Federal Constitutional Right to Abortion
The fears of millions were realized on June 24, as the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional protection of abortion — robbing people of the fundamental right to control their own bodies.
Abortion in the courts: What’s at stake in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is challenging the enforceability of Wisconsin’s 173 year old statue.