On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will receive an opinion about what is called the most important elections of the year for abortion rights.
On Tuesday, voters will drive the ballots to the Visconsin Supreme Court. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court of the state is technically non -partisan, the results of this race will determine the ideological balance of their judges, directly affecting the future of rights to abortion in the state, since it is expected that the court will weigh whether the law prohibiting the abortion should remain in books.
“When the US Supreme Court canceled Row against WadeThere was a lot of talk that abortion is sent to state legislative bodies. In fact, this is wrong: in the end, the issue was posed to 50 state supreme courts, each of which should interpret the Constitution of his state, ”said BuzzFeed News, each of which should interpret the Constitution of his state,” said Howard Schveber, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
After the US Supreme Court hit Row against Wade In June last year, the issue of reproductive rights occupied a central place in the state election. Last summer voters in Kansas He rejected the attempt To deprive protection against abortions from the state constitution, and during the intermediate elections of last fall voters in several statesIncluding Michigan and Kentukki, protected reproductive rights to the ballot.
In Wisconsin, when Caviar It was canceled, the ban on 1849, which prohibits all abortions in all cases, except to save the life of a pregnant person, again entered into force. General Prosecutor Josh Kaul, with the support of the democratic governor Tony Evers, sued the court to turn the ban and promised not to apply it While a legal challenge continues to make his way through the courts. Nevertheless, many abortion suppliers in the state stopped performing the procedure from the ambiguity around its legality.
Kaul and EVERS won the re -election in November after they conducted the campaign for supporting abortion rights. Currently, it is expected that the case will go to the Supreme Court of the state next year or two, and the judges will have the last word about whether the ban on 1849 remains.
The elections became one of the closest contests in the country with the former president Barack Obama Encourage visconsinites to go out And vote. He also broke the records of expenses as the most expensive elections to the State Supreme Court in the history of the United States, almost almost $ 29 million According to the Brennovka Center for Justice, I go to political advertising.
