'A good day for democracy and the people of Michigan.'
in the text—an objection that campaigners said was a mere cover for the GOP officials' opposition to the content of the measure.
"They would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad," the justice continued."What a sad marker of the times.
If approved, the measure would amend the Michigan constitution with a section explicitly affirming that"every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.
The ballot initiative is years in the making, and the signature-collection process kicked off at the beginning of 2022 amid mounting fears of a Supreme Court assault on the constitutional right to abortion care. When the high court's right-wing majority overturnedin June, imperiling reproductive care in much of the U.S., petition organizing kicked into overdrive.for the Michigan initiative, more than any other ballot measure in the state's history and far more than the 425,000 required.
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