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Abortion rights will be on Michigan's November ballot, court rules
Reuters ^ | September 8, 2022 | Gabriella Borter

Posted on 09/08/2022 3:37:15 PM PDT by Coronal

Michigan's top court ruled on Thursday that voters should get to decide whether to amend their state constitution to protect abortion rights, handing a win to advocates who petitioned to put the measure on the November ballot.

Reproductive Freedom for All, an abortion-rights advocacy group, amassed more than 730,000 signatures in support of putting a state constitutional amendment affirming the right to abortion on the general election ballot.

The group appealed to the Democratic-leaning state Supreme Court last week after the state canvassing board deadlocked over whether to allow the issue to go before voters. The two Republicans on the canvassing board voted against putting the amendment on the ballot, while the two Democrats supported it.

Anti-abortion groups objected to the ballot measure largely on technical grounds, saying the language of the petition contained multiple errors.

Michigan abortion rights advocates began a campaign to put the issue on the 2022 ballot months before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that granted nationwide constitutional protection for abortion

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: abortion; biden; gretchenwhitmer; michigan; prolife; stopthesteal; stretchengretchen; thefixisin; whitler; whitmer
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1 posted on 09/08/2022 3:37:15 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal
LOL!

Michigan Republican legisgrifters team up with the Democrats to hand the governorship back to Wretched wHitler and her Michigan Mean Girl teeam.

2 posted on 09/08/2022 3:39:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Maybe Michigan GOP candidates should talk about limiting abortions to the first trimester and NOT talk about banning it entirely.


3 posted on 09/08/2022 3:40:55 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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This will help to get the a-holes to the polls.

Do not underestimate the impact. Think Kansas primaries


4 posted on 09/08/2022 3:41:21 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Michigan's top court ruled

There's a reason the Dems rigged the 2018 Michigan Supreme Court "elections"...

BOMBSHELL: Evidence Shows Michigan Supreme Court Race in 2020 Was Flipped – Election Audit Professionals Also Identify Numerous Red Flags in New Mexico and Arizona
August 11, 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4085012/posts

5 posted on 09/08/2022 3:41:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Coronal

There’s nothing like “abortion rights”
Nobody is born with the right to murder babies.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 3:41:35 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Coronal
KILL MORE BABIES!!!! KILL MORE BABIES!!! WE VOTE TO KILL MORE BABIES!!! WE WANT MORE DEAD BABIES!!

THIS is what all DEMONIC DEMOCRATS want! MORE DEAD BABIES!!

7 posted on 09/08/2022 3:42:59 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the sgod of Convenience.)
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To: Coronal

I bet they didn’t check those signatures very close to see if they were legit.


8 posted on 09/08/2022 3:44:53 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

How do you figure that? What evidence is there to support that impression?


9 posted on 09/08/2022 3:51:54 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: kiryandil

A gift to the rats. Mi will keep it’s rat Governor, dyke AG and the Soros SOS. Game over.


10 posted on 09/08/2022 3:52:12 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Coronal

Shiny shoe box face is going to win again.

Who in the hell is Tudor Dixon? Nobody knows and she’s not flooding TV or radio with interviews.

Frau Vitmer ruined everyone’s life and the Michigan GOP has done NOTHING to take advantage of it.

Infuriating.


11 posted on 09/08/2022 3:52:17 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Coronal
Knowing how the 2020 Election was "run", there's no doubt the Amendment will pass (one way or another). ALL Blue States control their ballot counting, and the outcome is a fore-drawn conclusion.

RIP, USA.

12 posted on 09/08/2022 3:57:27 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Coronal

Late term abortion.

WARNING!!! VERY GRAFFIC!

https://www.dnatube.com/video/9919/Late-Term-Abortion

Sick beyond belief.


13 posted on 09/08/2022 4:04:37 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Mr Rogers

No one should get a three-month window to murder a baby.


14 posted on 09/08/2022 4:17:58 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: gibsonguy

i actually think this is better...Dixon is getting killed over the abortion issue,,...she gave an absolutely horrid interview and the Witch made a commercial with it that is playing every 15 minutes here....now with this ruling, hopefully it takes the issue away from being between the candidates....the Kansas vote was the wake up call, whether anybody likes it or not. Rep’s out number dems 3-1 in Kansas and as badly as the issue lost there, it tells me Republicans also voted to keep abortion in the Kansas constitution...politically, its been a disaster...


15 posted on 09/08/2022 4:26:43 PM PDT by basalt ( in the irons....)
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To: Mr Rogers

1st trimester-3 months-2nd trimester, whatever-it is still a human-so why is killing that little human okay at 3 months but suddenly not at 5, 6. 7 months-or 9 for that matter? If that woman is planning on getting an abortion after she knows she is probably pregnant, that is just too bad-the kid has a right to 9 months of her time in utero so he/she can be born-give the kid up for adoption and get a tubal ligation...


16 posted on 09/08/2022 4:37:21 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Gene Eric

Right. They needed 500,000 valid signatures over a certain period. They almost instantly got 700,000 possiblly valid signatures. 500,000 have been certified.
That’s insane.


17 posted on 09/08/2022 4:43:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Coronal

Disastrous for pro-life people here in Michigan.

Local Detroit TV news website.————
The proposal seeks to amend the Michigan Constitution to 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 measure would “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.”


18 posted on 09/08/2022 4:45:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: basalt

I am in Michigan and the ads against Tudor Dixon for Gov.) used to “a woman’s right to choose.” Then they boldly made it explicit “to choose abortion.” And imply ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage were somehow criminalized by the GOP——NOT TRUE in Michigan or other states. They don’t need a Dem “hero” to save them from that.

Women around here can hardly wait to vote Dem and they wish it were November.

Deep, deep trouble. Including for the innocent babies to be slaughtered by the “choice” of women to abort them.


19 posted on 09/08/2022 4:51:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Texan5; Arcadian Empire

There is MORALITY. And there is POLITICS. If you screw up the POLITICS, you will get unlimited abortion to birth and beyond because most Americans in most states do NOT support the Zero Abortion option!

The question is, “Do you want SOME restrictions, and the right to argue for narrowing the window further, or will your demands push America into an unlimited abortion position?”

Sorry, but what is moral doesn’t win until you convince a comfortable MAJORITY to enact it. That majority doesn’t exist, and the other side is using this window of opportunity to enshrine abortion rights into Constitutions and Federal law! Once written, it will take another 50 years - or MORE - to undo it!


20 posted on 09/08/2022 4:52:45 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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