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MADISON, WISCONSIN (AP)-
UW Health spokeswoman Lisa Brunette says its gynecologists at UW and Meriter hospitals have proposed performing the abortions for women between 13 and 22 weeks into their pregnancies at the Madison Surgery Center. She says the plan needs final approval from the center's board, which could take action this month.

More than two dozen Wisconsin lawmakers are asking the University of Wisconsin Hospital to drop a plan to provide late-term abortions at a private clinic.

Twenty-eight Republican senators and representatives and one independent signed a letter to Hospital CEO Donna Katen-Bahensky on Thursday. The letter calls second-trimester abortion a "barbaric" procedure and asks Katen-Bahensky to use her power to stop it.
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As a current patient, I object to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics performing abortions. I will boycott the UW Health System and its partners if the plan goes through.
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