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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]
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repealed a handful of abortion restrictions in Michigan, making changes long-awaited by abortion rights proponents. Whitmer signs Michigan 'Reproductive Health Act,' repeals ...
The state of abortion rights has been upended by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. As of Nov. 6, more than a dozen states have banned abortions or no longer have ...
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.
Whitmer won re-election in 2022 running alongside a Michigan ballot measure to put abortion rights in the state constitution. And the governor warned of Republicans’ “backward” views on the ...