Michigan electorate this fall will determine whether to enshrine Abortion Rights in a constitutional amendment after the nation’s Supreme Court directed election officers to put the measure on the ballot.
In a 5-2 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered the Board of State Canvassers to certify a current petition to get the abortion question on the Nov. eight ballot.
The fight over the ballot measure went before the high court after individuals of the Board of State Canvassers were deadlocked 2-2 over whether to permit the initiative to go before the electorate this fall. The court sided with the plaintiffs, Reproductive Freedom for All, an abortion-rights institution backing the amendment and ruled that the meaning of the words was “not changed by the alleged inadequate spacing between them.”
“We are happy that the Court affirmed the will of the people,” the institution tweeted after Thursday’s ruling. “Be certain to vote #YesOn3 this November eight.”
A nation judge on Wednesday struck down Michigan’s 1931 anti-abortion law, which criminalizes performing an abortion except the woman’s life is in danger. In that case, state appeals Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ruled that the statute violated the state constitution.
Democrats in numerous states wish to have ballot measures just like Michigan’s by the time the electorate head to the polls.
Kansas electorate had been the first to vote on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Kansans rejected a ballot question that proposed removing language from the state constitution that assured the right to abortion.