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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]
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.
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]
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Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue are targeting judicial races in Michigan and Ohio, two of the 33 states nationwide in which supreme court seats are on the ballot in the Nov. 5 ...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer holds a news conference to sign the Reproductive Freedom Act with lawmakers and activists who worked to get the legislation passed at Schoolcraft College in Livonia ...
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.
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