'A big step': Abortion providers relieved after Wisconsin services resume today

For 15 months, Wisconsin abortion providers have either halted their services entirely or relocated to do them in another state as a lawsuit seeks to clarify whether an 1849 law on the books applies to consensual abortions. Confident that the law doesn’t apply to abortions — a feeling bolstered by a Dane County judge ruling in July that “there is no such thing as an ‘1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin” — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is resuming its abortion services on Monday. Anti-abortion advocates and Republicans say the organization’s resumption...