Supreme Court decision, Michigan’s extreme 1931 law banning abortion without exceptions for rape or incest and criminalizing doctors and nurses who provide reproductive care is poised to take effect. The urgency of the moment is clear-the Michigan court must act now,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We need to clarify that under Michigan law, access to abortion is not only legal, but constitutionally protected. “Today, I filed a motion urging the court to immediately take up my lawsuit to protect abortion in Michigan. On Friday, following the SCOTUS ruling, Whitmer filed a motion urging the court to immediately consider her lawsuit. In anticipation of Roe being overturned, Planned Parenthood of Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union together filed a lawsuit in April seeking an immediate court order restraining Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel from “enforcing the unconstitutional ban against abortion providers.” The lawsuit argues that Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban “violates the rights to liberty, bodily integrity, equal protection, and privacy under the Michigan Constitution and state civil rights laws, and that the law is unconstitutionally vague.” The law has no exceptions for rape or incest. Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban, which is an updated version of a law that dates back to the 1840s, states that all abortions are felonious and cannot be carried out unless necessary to “preserve” the life of the mother. Wade ruling that made abortion legal nationwide, relinquishing control of abortion regulation to individual state governments. Supreme Court has voted to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Gretchen Whitmer filed a motion urging the state’s Supreme Court to consider her lawsuit challenging the 1931 abortion law following the U.S.
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