The voters in Wisconsin will have their opinion on Tuesday in what is called the most important elections in the year for abortion rights.
On Tuesday, voters will make voting cards to obtain a seat at the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Although the state’s Supreme Court is technically non -partisan, the result of this race will determine the ideological balance of its judges, which directly affects the future of abortion rights in the state, where the court is expected to agree on whether the law should remain in 1849, abortion prohibits books.
“When the United States Supreme Court has passed Ro against a valleyThere was a lot of talk about the issue of abortion that is sent to the state legislative bodies. In fact, this is a mistake: in the end, the question goes to the senior courts of the fiftieth state, each of which must explain its state constitution. “
After dropping the US Supreme Court Ro against a valley Last June, the issue of reproductive rights occupied the lead in the state elections. Last summer, voters in Kansas Reject To strip the protection from abortion from the state constitution, and during the renewal elections last fall, Voters in several statesIncluding Michigan and Kentucky, defended the reproductive rights in voting.
In Wisconsin, when Row It was vetoed, banned in 1849, which prohibits all abortion in all cases except for saving the life of a pregnant person, again. The Democratic Prosecutor of the State, Josh Cole, with the support of the Democratic Governor Tony Evepers, filed a lawsuit against the embargo and Pledge While the legal challenge continues to make its way through the courts. However, the state’s abortion providers have stopped conducting the procedure due to the ambiguity of its legitimacy.
Cole and Evepers won his re -election in November after they supported them for abortion rights. The case is now expected to go to the state’s Supreme Court in the next year or two years, and the judges will have the last word on whether the ban is 1849 is still the law.
The elections have become one of the most closely seen competitions in the country, with the former president Barack Obama Encouraging Wisconsin to go out And vote. It also broke the spending records as the most expensive Supreme Court elections in the state in the history of the United States, with nearly that 29 million dollars Going to political ads, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.