FOR THREE AND a half years, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ veto pen was the only thing keeping his state’s Republican legislators from getting everything on their anti-abortion wish list. When they tried to ban abortion based on fetal anomalies, Evers was there to veto it. Block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood? Evers vetoed that, too. And he shot down a bill that would have required doctors to tell patients they could reverse a medication abortion—a claim the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says is “not based on science.”
Then the Supreme Court overturned . Suddenly, the Wisconsin legislature didn’t have to lift a finger. State law appeared to automatically default to an 1849
