![]() “So, we’re back to doctors should choose their counties carefully?” the judge said. She did take Thome to task over his contention that prosecutors can pick and choose which abortion laws to enforce. Schlipper offered few hints on which way she is leaning. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. She acknowledged that the argument that the ban is too old to be enforced has little precedent in Wisconsin. “It can't be that the law says something is illegal and legal at the same time,” Jurss said. The modern laws don't mean anything if the ban allows an abortion only to save the mother's life, she added. Kaul has legal standing because he's Wisconsin's top law enforcement official, and he needs to know what laws apply in the state, she said. The new laws give county prosecutors charging options, he said.Īssistant Attorney General Hannah Jurss maintained that the ban clearly conflicts with modern-day laws that permit abortion in some circumstances, creating confusion that only a judge can clarify. Modern-day laws restricting abortion, including the 1985 post-viability restriction, co-exist with the ban in “harmony," he said. He also maintained that legislators never repealed the ban. Laws don't vanish from the books, and the only reason the ban wasn't enforced was that the original 1973 Roe v. Kaul's argument that the ban is so old it's unenforceable is a “stretch," Thome added. Urmanski's lead attorney, Matthew Thome, first argued that Kaul lacks the legal standing to challenge the ban because it doesn't affect his ability to perform his duties as attorney general. She didn't issue a decision from the bench, and it's unclear when she might release a ruling. He filed a motion to dismiss the case in December.ĭane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper listened to more than 90 minutes of oral arguments on the motion Thursday. Kaul has named three district attorneys in counties that were home to abortion clinics as defendants, including Sheboygan County's Republican prosecutor, Joel Urmanski. The 1985 legislation permits terminating pregnancies up until a fetus can survive outside the womb Kaul argues that the 1849 law is so old it was essentially adopted without the people's consent or alternately, that more permissive restrictions on abortion enacted in Wisconsin in 1985 to comply with Roe v. State Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit in Dane County circuit court last June seeking to repeal the ban. It was held in abeyance for nearly five decades until the high court struck down Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion statewide effectively voided the ban. Wisconsin lawmakers passed a law in 1849 that outlaws abortion except to save the mother's life. – Attorneys for a Republican prosecutor urged a judge Thursday to toss out a lawsuit seeking to repeal Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban, arguing that a newer state law permitting pre-viability abortions complements the ban rather than supersedes it, as Democrats maintain. Since hail can cause the rainfall estimates to be higher than what is actually occurring, steps are taken to prevent these high dBZ values from being converted to rainfall.MADISON, Wis. ![]() Hail is a good reflector of energy and will return very high dBZ values. These values are estimates of the rainfall per hour, updated each volume scan, with rainfall accumulated over time. Depending on the type of weather occurring and the area of the U.S., forecasters use a set of rainrates which are associated to the dBZ values. The higher the dBZ, the stronger the rainrate. ![]() Typically, light rain is occurring when the dBZ value reaches 20. The scale of dBZ values is also related to the intensity of rainfall. The value of the dBZ depends upon the mode the radar is in at the time the image was created. Notice the color on each scale remains the same in both operational modes, only the values change. The other scale (near left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in precipitation mode (dBZ values from 5 to 75). One scale (far left) represents dBZ values when the radar is in clear air mode (dBZ values from -28 to +28). Each reflectivity image you see includes one of two color scales. The dBZ values increase as the strength of the signal returned to the radar increases. ![]() So, a more convenient number for calculations and comparison, a decibel (or logarithmic) scale (dBZ), is used. Reflectivity (designated by the letter Z) covers a wide range of signals (from very weak to very strong). "Reflectivity" is the amount of transmitted power returned to the radar receiver. The colors are the different echo intensities (reflectivity) measured in dBZ (decibels of Z) during each elevation scan.
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