Abortion advocates were ecstatic on April 4 when Judge Janet Protasiewicz decisively defeated conservative Daniel Kelly in Wisconsin in an off-year election that for the first time in 15 years ensured that the state’s highest court will oppose any limits on the procedure that has killed more than 63 million unborn babies since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe decision was overturned on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson, which restored to state legislatures the authority to decide within their respective jurisdictions how many restrictions, if any, to place on the procedure.
