Michigan abortion laws

An Oakland County judge hears testimony over two days. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to bar enforcement of a 1931 ban on abortion. Some prosecutors contend they should have the right since Roe was overturned.

A TV ad uses an edited interview of the Republican governor candidate to make it appear she thinks the rape of a 14-year-old girl is a ‘perfect example’ of why abortion should be banned.

Some Republican prosecutors want to enforce Michigan’s long-dormant abortion law. A county court judge is currently mulling a request from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s legal team to prevent that while the legality of abortion in Michigan wends through the courts.

A initiative to add abortion rights to the Michigan Constitution has 43 ‘serious errors’ related to spacing, opponents claim. Organizers say they are confident the measure meets legal requirements.

The governor is challenging Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban, and a judge this week quashed a subpoena that would have forced her to testify in the case

Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Cunningham extended the temporary restraining order for two more weeks, when another hearing will be held.

Legal abortion access was thrown into legal jeopardy Monday when the Court of Appeals ruled county prosecutors could enforce a 1931 ban. But a temporary restraining order later Monday kept the procedure legal, for now.

Michigan’s clinics were already strained in March, before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal right to abortion, leaving abortion access to the states. Now, residents from states banning or limiting abortion are adding to Michigan’s wait.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she plans to veto $21 million from a record state budget that she called ‘anti-choice.’

The Democratic governor won’t cooperate with out-of-state law enforcement to prosecute those who come to Michigan for abortion

Reproductive Freedom for All and Promote the Vote 2022 submit signatures to force a November election on whether to write abortion rights, early voting into state constitution. Here’s what happens next.

A national group filed complaints in Michigan this week against several nonprofits saying they bankrolled progressive ballot drives in Michigan while keeping their donors secret.

The Republican-led House and Senate seeks to reverse a lower court’s injunction blocking enforcement of a 1931 law that bans abortions in Michigan except to save the life of the mother. It’s the latest twist in a web of suits over abortion access.

The campaign collected almost twice the required number of valid signatures for the issue to appear on the November ballot, said campaign co-chair Linh Song.

The owner of All Star Mechanical turned his typical quarter-page ad for heating and cooling repairs into a political screed. People noticed.

Plugging sensitive reproductive health data, such as information on menstrual cycles, into a tracking app could be used in prosecutions if the state once again bans abortion, the Attorney General warned.

The four children shot dead in their high school in Oxford last year are of equal worth as each of the more than 1.5 million children whose lives ended in abortion in Michigan since Roe v. Wade was decided.

Bridge Michigan’s Capitol reporting team discussed hotly contested races, ballot initiatives, the potential impact of the state’s new electoral maps, candidate filing fiascos, the potential impact of Supreme Court decisions and more in this roundtable event.

Reproductive Freedom for All, a ballot measure to codify abortion rights into Michigan’s Constitution, says it’s experienced a surge in interest since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe.

Fears over access, prompted in part by an opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, prompt a run on morning-after pills.