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Abortion in Michigan is legal throughout pregnancy. [1] [2] A state constitutional amendment to explicitly guarantee abortion rights was placed on the ballot in 2022 as Michigan Proposal 22–3; [3] it passed with 57 percent of the vote, adding the right to abortion and contraceptive use to the Michigan Constitution. [4]
The Child Protective Legal Representation Task Force found some counties struggling to find attorneys for child protective cases.
The law was ruled unconstitutional by Michigan Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth L. Gleicher, characterizing the law as a violation of due process; however, the case was appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court. Regardless of the outcome of that appeal, there was no clear constitutional protection for abortion access in Michigan, making further ...
2022 - A 1931 law criminalized abortion in Michigan except when the mother's life was in danger, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization would have allowed that law to go back into effect, but on 7 September 2022, a Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled that that law violated the Michigan constitution. [319]
The assessment is based on an international child rights convention, but the United States is the only U.N. member not to have adopted the treaty. Michigan laws on child marriage, corporal ...
Michigan is closer to shrugging off federal oversight of its child welfare program, after a U.S. district court judge eliminated or reduced many of the requirements it must meet in order to do so.
Until 2022, abortion in Florida was legal up to the 24th week of pregnancy. 56% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. An abortion ban with therapeutic exception was in place by 1900. Such laws were in place after the American Medical Association sought to criminalize abortion in ...
The Michigan Children's Protection Registry Act, (Michigan Compiled Laws 752.1061) was approved and became effective on July 21, 2004. [7]The legislation is virtually identical to the Utah Child Protection Registry Act, in that it establishes a registry of child contact points [8] and prohibits the sending of a message to a contact point contained on the registry "if the primary purpose of the ...