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While the legal landscape around abortion in Michigan was unclear in the wake of the Dobbs decision due to various conflicting pre-Roe laws that were still on the books, in November 2022, Michigan voters passed a state constitutional amendment that explicitly added the right to abortion and contraception to the Michigan state constitution.
The Right to Abortion Initiative, or CI-128, proposed amending the state constitution to “provide a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to ...
The ballot measure in Montana would amend the state constitution to provide a right to “make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.” It would ...
Wade in 2022 and gutted our constitutional right to abortion, all eyes have been on the states. And what a time it’s been: 22 states have passed more restrictive abortion laws and 14 have banned ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, 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. [314]
Abortion is the termination of human pregnancy, often performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade recognized a constitutional right to obtain an abortion without excessive government restriction, and in 1992 the Court in Planned Parenthood v.
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 ...
Measures that would have protected abortion rights at the state level are projected to fail in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, leaving those state's restrictions in effect. ... 21 states have ...