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Brad Schimel: “The word abortion doesn't appear in the Wisconsin…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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Published | Video Starts at 13:26

That 1849 law is going to be resolved by the Supreme Court long before I take the bench on August 1st. And what I said about the Constitution, I said that The word abortion doesn't appear in the Wisconsin Constitution. So if there's a constitutional right there to abortion, someone's going to have to make a creative legal argument to explain where that is implied within that constitution. (13:26–13:31)

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Asserts that the Wisconsin Constitution does not explicitly mention abortion.

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