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A lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has drawn the ire of Republicans in the State Assembly, including 27th District Representative Lindee Brill of Sheboygan Falls.
The coalition of 11 State Representatives issued a joint condemnation of the lawsuit on Thursday, which was filed in Dane County Circuit Court on behalf of its staff and patients against Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, the state Medical Examining Board and the Board of Nursing. It challenges two current restrictions on abortions: The requirement that only physicians provide abortion care, and a mandatory 24-hour waiting period between the consultation with a physician and the abortion appointment with that same physician.
Calling the lawsuit “yet another attempt by Planned Parenthood to usurp the duty of the legislature”, the coalition said that “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.” Whereas doctors are mandatory reporters of suspected abuse, the coalition said that “Removing physicians from the abortion equation strips basic protection for a girl or woman aborting her baby.”
The coalition said that should the case come before the state high court and Justice Chris Taylor, the former legal counsel and policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, then “This Justice will most certainly deny justice to unborn baby boys and girls, and to their mothers.”
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