Letters to the Editor

Ahead of the 2022 Wisconsin Democratic Convention in La Crosse, the governor shared his response to the overturning of landmark abortion ruling Roe v Wade and his future course of action.

The decision is a stunning reversal of a guarantee that permitted medical providers to administer thousands of abortions in Wisconsin each year for decades.

Doctors across Wisconsin have stopped providing abortions, even as questions remain about the enforceability of a 173-year-old state ban. The state's abortion providers took the step Friday immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide. Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother, but whether that law is enforceable is expected to be challenged in court. Planned Parenthood Wisconsin Medical Director Kathy King says nearly 70 women had abortion procedures scheduled for Friday and Saturday, but that the group instead helped those women make appointments for abortions in states where it's legal.

In response to Friday's ruling, a group of doctors plans to start an independent clinic in the Rockford area to initially offer pill abortions and eventually provide surgical abortions.

Here's a look at how insanity pleas work in the Wisconsin justice system and what Darrell Brooks Jr.'s attorneys would have to prove for him to avoid prison.

A 14-year-old boy accused of killing and raping a 10-year-old girl in Chippewa County woods will find out in September whether he will stand trial.

Kelly Nolan, a UW-Whitewater student living in Madison for the summer, was last seen in the State Street area in the early morning hours of June 23, 2007, after a night out with friends.

The decision is a stunning reversal of a guarantee that permitted medical providers to administer thousands of abortions in Wisconsin each year for decades.