Abortion rights activists collect throughout a “Restore Roe” rally on the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. on Sept. 7, 2022.
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Abortion rights activists collect throughout a “Restore Roe” rally on the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. on Sept. 7, 2022.
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DETROIT – Michigan voters have adopted an modification to the state structure enshrining abortion rights, in accordance with a name from The Associated Press. The vote successfully scraps a 1931 ban on the process that would have taken impact following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The abortion ban was placed on maintain by a court docket order because the modification marketing campaign performed out. Abortion rights supporters gathered a document 753,759 signatures to get the modification on the poll.
The modification particularly protects the correct of girls to make choices about being pregnant, contraception, childbirth and abortion. The state may nonetheless regulate reproductive care after fetal viability, or about 24 weeks.
The marketing campaign backing the modification says it would restore abortion rights in Michigan after the Supreme Court’s June choice in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The modification’s opponents, together with the state’s Catholic Church and the politically influential Right to Life of Michigan, say its sweeping protections are excessive and past what the state’s residents need.