News & Commentary

From regaining our reproductive freedom to securing 3 new early voting locations, as 2023 comes to a close, we celebrate the biggest victories for civil rights and liberties this year.

A pivotal state supreme court election made clear that we won’t tolerate attacks on our reproductive freedom.

We asked Wisconsinites to anonymously share their stories from when abortion was widely accessible.

People in prison were denied reproductive freedom and care long before Roe was at risk. That needs to change.

The extreme exercise of power by both our federal and state Supreme Courts to roll back our rights underscores the urgency of upcoming Wisconsin elections.

This is a perilous moment for our rights, but there are still ways to take action to support and protect abortion rights

A growing anti-abortion agenda is sweeping the country. The ACLU is here to defend against it.

The state of Wisconsin filed a petition today asking the US Supreme Court to review the 7th Circuit federal appeals court’s decision to invalidate a law that would have required doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital -- one of the restrictions currently under consideration in the Texas abortion case before the Supreme Court, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. If implemented, the law would threaten one of only four remaining Wisconsin abortion providers with closur

It’s been five years since Dr. George Tiller was gunned down by an anti-abortion fanatic, and if it taught us anything, it taught us that we need reasonable dialogue on the subject of abortion. We don’t need gunshots, firebombs, threats or continued bullying of doctors and their female patients who are seeking services guaranteed to them under the law. On Sunday, May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder shot Tiller through the eye while the d