Abortion in Wisconsin

Abortion in Wisconsin is legal. From September to late October 2025, Planned Parenthood paused abortions due to Medicaid funding cuts, but resumed them on October 27, 2025. Its legal status was unclear from the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, until a court decision on September 18, 2023, and the state operated under the assumption that the old law was operative. It is performed in Madison, Milwaukee and Sheboygan through 22 weeks gestation. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced it would resume abortion services in Madison and Milwaukee on September 18, 2023. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin later announced it would resume abortion services in Sheboygan on December 28, 2023. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced it would stop abortion services amid federal funding cuts on September 24, 2025. Abortion services resumed on October 27, 2025.

An 1849 law banned the procedure in all cases except when the life of the mother is in danger. Abortion opponents often cited this law. However, in 2023, lower level state courts ruled that it only applied to infanticide and not consensual abortions, and in 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court entirely struck down the old law.

In a 2014 poll by the Pew Research Center, 53% of Wisconsin adults said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 45% said it should be illegal in all or most cases.

The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 66% of Wisconsinites said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

The Center for Reproductive Rights has labeled the state as hostile towards abortion rights, citing concerns such as the 20-week ban, telemedicine ban, TRAP requirements, admitting privileges requirement, transfer agreement requirement, reporting requirement, parental consent required, mandatory counseling, mandatory ultrasound, and waiting period requirements.