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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has appealed a judge's ruling that doctors do not have to be present when women ingest drugs prescribed for a medical abortion.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Richard Niess issued the ruling in July in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood over part of a 2012 law. Both Planned Parenthood and the state Department of Justice had agreed on how the law ought to be interpreted; Niess concurred.
A Van Hollen spokeswoman tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1lGh2B4 ) Friday that the attorney general believes the appeal is in the state's best interest.
The newspaper reports Van Hollen isn't contending that doctors should be present, but that the lawsuit should have been dismissed from the outset.
An attorney for Planned Parenthood called the move frivolous.
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Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com
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