The court overruled the state’s Board of Canvassers, who deadlocked and rejected the ballot measure over a lack of spacing between words.
—potentially safeguarding abortion rights in the state before a ban on the procedure could go into effect.... [+]The Michigan Supreme Court directed the Board of State Canvassers to approve the initiative by Friday.would amend the Michigan Constitution to state there’s a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” which includes both abortion rights and contraception, prenatal care, postpartum care, miscarriage care, childbirth, infertility care and sterilization.
The ballot measure bars the state from punishing people for performing an abortion, though it does allow the procedure to be restricted after the fetus is viable , as was allowed under Roe v. Wade.in a 2-2 vote on whether to approve the amendment last week, which stopped the measure from making the ballot and left it up to the court to decide.
The dispute over its approval hinged on formatting errors in the ballot proposal that left some words without spaces between them—which opponents of the initiative said made it into “gibberish”—which led the board’s Republican members to reject the ballot measure, even though its Democratic members argued they didn’t have the power to do so.
The court agreed the board did not have the power to reject the proposal, given that it had the number of signatures required to make the ballot.
by Bridge Michigan found those spaces do, in fact, exist, but are just hard to see based on how it was formatted in Adobe InDesign, however.More than 750,000. That’s the number of people that signed a petition in favor of putting the abortion rights initiative on the ballot, which marked a
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