'This Is People Power': Michigan Groups Submit Signatures to Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot

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'This Is People Power': Michigan Groups Submit Signatures to Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot
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'Reproductive Freedom for All submitted a record-breaking 753,759 signatures to send the first citizen-initiated measure creating a right to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, to the ballot in Michigan.'

organizers of the initiative, the constitutional amendment would"affirm that every person has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which involves the right to make and carry out decisions without political interference about all matters relating to pregnancy, including birth control, abortion, prenatal care, and childbirth."

"Specifically," the campaign's website notes,"this measure will ensure that all Michiganders have the right to safe and respectful care during birthing, everyone has the right to use temporary or permanent birth control, everyone has the right to continue or end a pregnancy pre-viability, and no one can be punished for having a miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion."a 1931 law prohibiting abortions in the state.. In May, ahead of the U.S.

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