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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 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]
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]
A Michigan judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the state's mandatory 24-hour waiting period before receiving an abortion, as well as the state's "informed consent" law and a ban on ...
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It allows people with a computer, internet, webcam, and credit card to communicate with inmates at select jails. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 74% of jails dropped face-to-face visitation after installing video visitation. [1] [2] As of May 2016, over 600 prisons in 46 states across the U.S. use some sort of video visitation system ...
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 ...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson released statements praising the Court's ruling. [ 8 ] Media reaction to the decision was generally positive, with commentators deriding the Board's initial refusal to certify the petition as anti-democratic and a sign of increasing polarization in the U.S. political ...