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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 amendment was introduced to overturn the 1931 abortion ban and make the right to "reproductive freedom" explicit in the Michigan Constitution. [2] The Reproductive Freedom For All ballot committee gathered 753,759 signatures for the constitutional amendment, the most ever gathered for a ballot measure in state history, and more than enough ...
The party platform previously called for a constitutional amendment to protect unborn children. Now, it says abortion should be left to the states. Why the New Republican Platform Is Moderate on ...
The new platform falls short of that, instead only saying that states are now free to pass laws in accordance with the Constitution and with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in 2022 overturning a ...
The Republican National Committee’s platform committee has adopted a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to ...
Under Michigan law, proponents of a ballot measure were required to obtain 425,059 signatures from registered Michigan voters. In July 2022, Reproductive Freedom for All submitted 753,759 signatures to the Secretary of State and requested that the ballot measure be added to the Fall 2022 ballot. [ 2 ]
Evangelical confusion about the Republican party’s anti-abortion messaging began to set in ahead of the Republican convention, when the party endorsed a platform that says abortion is best left ...
Democrats believe that abortion is the most vulnerable issue for Republicans in 2024, and removing the idea of a national abortion ban from the platform seems to indicate that we’ve learned the ...