The Legislature also cut family planning funds, which are used to pay for cancer screenings and other preventative care. The cuts caused several Planned Parenthood clinics that did not perform abortions to close across the state.

“Wisconsin is now ranked as one of the worst states when it comes to reproductive rights,” Baldwin said.

Taylor said the Women’s’ Health Protection Act is necessary to stop rules that unfairly regulate abortion services as compared to medically comparable procedures. She said the hospital admitting bill is an example.

“These restrictions do not promote women’s health or safety and run counter to sound medical practice and opinion,” Taylor said. “In fact, by making abortion services more difficult or impossible to access, these restrictions threaten the health, safety and lives of Wisconsin women and women throughout the country.”

Baldwin shared the experience of one Middleton family to illustrate the point.