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.
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.
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.
Hospitals are sending mixed signals, or no signal at all, on whether they will perform abortions. Some local prosecutors say they can now charge abortion doctors, which state leaders deny. The result, for now, is legal chaos.
An injunction suspending enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortions only applies to the state, an attorney for prosecutors contends, revealing the tenuousness of the law after the Supreme Court decision.
A conservative majority of justices overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established a federal right to abortion. In a series of opinions, the nine-member court revealed deep divisions within their ranks.
Justice Clarence Thomas writes that laws legalizing same-sex marriage and contraception should be revisited. If federal protections end, old Michigan laws could take effect.