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Republican proposal for exceptions to near-complete abortion ban in Wisconsin shut down within hours

“An agreement to update the disputed law could very well undercut the current legal challenge,” UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon told the Wisconsin State Journal last November. “If an amendment were to build on the 1849 law, that could well be interpreted as an acknowledgement that the 1849 law (as amended) continues to apply.”