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A 74-year-old man shot an 84-year-old woman on September 20, 2022. She was campaigning against Michigan's Proposition 3 which sought to make abortion a constitutional right in the state of Michigan. [51] She survived and she received medical treatment for her wound after driving to a nearby police department. [52]
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state with relatively strict controls on abortion, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [28]
In January 2022, Reproductive Freedom for All, in partnership with the ACLU of Michigan, Michigan Voices, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, filed paperwork with the Board of State Canvassers to begin a ballot petition drive to amend the Constitution of Michigan to provide for a limited right to an abortion.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, returning the issue of abortion rights back to the states, Michigan voters passed Proposal 3 in 2022 to enshrine a right to reproductive freedom.
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The ballot measure amends the state constitution to guarantee abortion rights up to fetal viability, generally considered to be around 23 or 24 weeks. The state currently bans abortions after the ...
Michigan Proposal B, the Abortion Legalization to 20 Weeks Initiative, was on the ballot in Michigan as an indirect initiated state statute on November 7, 1972. The ballot measure was defeated with 60.65% of the vote. However, the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Michigan's abortion ban in the Roe v. Wade ruling one year later.
A Michigan judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the state's mandatory 24-hour waiting period before receiving an abortion, as well as the state's "informed consent" law and a ban on ...