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Women ‘face a serious danger of irreparable harm if prevented from accessing abortion services,’ a judge wrote in an opinion that is bound to be appealed.
With just a few weeks left before a signature deadline, measures that were expected to be signed into law by a Republican Legislature may be breathing last gasps.
For more than two decades, women in early pregnancy have been able to induce an abortion, safely, with the abortion pill regimen. Will the impending loss of federal abortion protections change that?
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed past Republican efforts to tie state funding to anti-abortion initiatives, but lawmakers say they’ll continue to try.
Business officials said companies are reluctant to weigh in on every social issue, whether they support it or not. In polarizing times, they say, they can’t win either way, but staying silent can present its own problems.
12,000 new volunteers in just over a day for Reproductive Freedom for All, a petition drive seeking to write abortion rights into the Michigan Constitutiony Anti-abortion groups said their support has increased steadily.
To some, the likely end to nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections means losing a say over their own bodies. But others see an end to what they deem government-sanctioned crime. They all appeared to scarcely believe the enormity of the ruling.
Michigan has the fifth-highest rate in the nation, even though there are no clinics in most counties. Maps, charts explain who is getting the procedure and where.
Abortion remains legal for now in Michigan, but access to abortion services is uncertain if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. We answer your questions about what such a decision would mean for Michigan.
Politico published a leaked draft late Monday of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling by Justice Sam Alito that would overrule Roe v. Wade, finding that there is no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution. Such a decision would have a huge impact in Michigan.
The governor will ask the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday to declare abortion protected under the state constitution and invalidate a 1931 law that make abortion a crime if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
The attorney general’s ad claims ‘you might have to cross state lines to legally have safe sex’ if her opponents win. None have suggested any such thing, but they have criticized a Supreme Court ruling.
A wedge issue could break the November election wide open if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade and allows the state’s 1931 abortion ban to be reinstated.
Fearing a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a coalition wants to amend the constitution and nullify a 1931 law that could go into effect and make performing an abortion a felony.
