MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers plans to veto a slate of Republican bills aimed at further limiting access to abortions — a move that comes as abortion opponents nationwide eye an opportunity to give state Legislatures the ability to ban abortions.

Evers, a Democrat, said Tuesday he would veto four bills passed by the state Assembly on Thursday that seek to reduce the number of abortions in Wisconsin by taking away funding for health clinics that provide abortions and banning women from seeking abortions because of a fetus' race, sex or disability.

The measures also would require doctors to inform women that they could continue their pregnancy if they act quickly after taking the first dose of a two-drug regimen that causes abortion and require the state to make public the names of hospitals and clinics where abortions had been provided.

"We shouldn’t be limiting the right for women to make their own healthcare decisions," Evers said in a tweet. "That’s why I’ll veto the bills passed by the Assembly last week if they arrive on my desk. It’s time to listen to women."

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Evers' tweet included the hashtag #StopTheBans — a movement among abortion rights advocates in response to new measures putting more restrictions on abortion access, including a law in Alabama that effectively outlaws abortion.

The law — which is sure to draw a legal challenge — is seen by abortion opponents as a chance to get the U.S. Supreme Court to take another look at Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortions.

Assembly lawmakers also passed a bill Thursday that requires doctors to provide medical care to babies born after failed abortion attempts — a bill doctors and abortion rights advocates said was written to create a false impression medical care isn't provided to babies in such circumstances, which are rare.

Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, authored the bill. He said Tuesday that Evers is misleading the public about what the measure would do.

"The Gov is going to veto a bill that protects babies that survive abortions, & he calls that 'limiting the rights of women to make their own healthcare decisions,'" Steineke said in a tweet. "This is why we need the bill. He’s for abortion at anytime for any reason, apparently extending to the survivors."

Evers previously said he would veto the proposal but had not until Tuesday said he would also veto the other abortion-related bills.

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