Dormant for half a century till the U.S. Supreme Court docket reversed the federal proper to an abortion, Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban sputtered again into life this summer season. However a decide there snuffed it out Wednesday, discovering that it broke the state structure.
“A legislation denying secure, routine medical care not solely denies girls of their means to regulate their our bodies and their lives — it denies them of their dignity,” [Judge Elizabeth] Gleicher of the Court docket of Claims wrote. “Michigan’s Structure forbids this violation of due course of.”
Michigan’s Supreme Court docket is at the moment weighing wether to permit a referendum on including abortion rights to the state structure. A petition with the requisite variety of signatures was handed in, however quibbles over the letter spacing on the petition gave conservative officers the excuse they wanted to dam the vote.