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Planned Parenthood Sues To Allow Nurses to Perform Abortions
Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit that looks to make getting an abortion easier and quicker is not going over well with Republican lawmakers and pro-life groups in Wisconsin.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday to allow nurses to handle abortions, and to end Wisconsin’s 24-hour waiting period law.
"For too long, politicians have put barriers between patients and the care they need. Decisions about whether and when to continue a pregnancy are deeply personal. They belong to each of us—not politicians. We are asking the courts to protect the freedom of Wisconsinites to make those decisions for themselves," Planned Parenthood CEO Tanya Atkinson said in a statement.
Planned Parenthood also is asking the liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare that women have a right to an abortion.
That prompted an immediate response from state Rep. Lindee Brill, R-Sheboygan Falls.
“This is an attack on the safety of women’s healthcare. This lawsuit will open the floodgates for sexual abuse of minors and sex trafficking in our state. Doctors are mandatory reporters of suspected abuse. Removing physicians from the abortion equation strips basic protection for a girl or woman aborting her baby. Planned Parenthood is notorious for ignoring state laws against rape and sexual abuse. We also know that 11% of women who take the abortion pill experience serious adverse effects," Brill and other lawmakers said in a statement.
Pro-Life Wisconsin also immediately condemned Planned Parenthood's lawsuit, and their end-goal.
“We have known for decades that the Democrat agenda has been to legalize abortion without restriction up until and including birth. Now, here in Wisconsin, they will settle for nothing less than making abortion a constitutional ‘right.’ There is no right to abortion in the Wisconsin Constitution. Any effort to find one is purely arbitrary," Pro-Life Wisconsin state director Dan Miller added.
The court has not said when it will hear Planned Parenthood's case, and it's not clear how quickly the case could make its way to the Supreme Court.
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