Wisconsin drew attention this week when a state Supreme Court election flipped control of the body from conservative to liberal as ideologically loaded issues—abortion chief among them—loom large. But while pundits discuss that judicial race, reproductive rights are also at issue in two lawsuits challenging the legal status of drugs used to end pregnancies. With drug-induced abortions preferred by many women over surgery, much is at stake in these cases. But they also illustrate the messiness of seeking courtroom solutions for important national disagreements.
Wisconsin's victorious new Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz "made abortion a centerpiece of her campaign, saying in ads, 'I believe in a woman's freedom to make her own decision on abortion,'" Reason's Joe Lancaster reported this week.
