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Michigan voters will have to wait until the state Supreme Court decides whether a 1931 law outlaws abortion.
The Michigan Board of Trustees was unable to make a decision Wednesday on whether an amendment to the state constitution providing abortion rights should be put to a vote in November. The committee, evenly split between two Democrats and two Republicans, fought over the technicality of the ballot proposal rather than the content of the petition.
Some words in the petition were not properly delimited, causing committee members to disagree on the issue of text spacing.
Michigan Judge Says County Prosecutors Can’t Enforce Abortion Ban
Tony Daunt, Republican chairman of the state board of elections, said, “If what was circulated had come to us for review, it would not have been approved.” I have a hard time understanding why
All eyes were on the voting board after the judge continued back-and-forth process For stopping prosecutors from enforcing the state’s 1931 law banning abortion. After a state appeals court panel ruled that employees of the state’s attorney general cannot prosecute abortion providers under the law, some questioned whether county prosecutors were allowed to enforce the law. There was a discussion of
A petition to put the amendment on the ballot in November attracted 752,288 signatures and was approved in March. But the wording of the petition, which the board reviewed Wednesday, differed from his March proposal, which had no space issues.
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Abortion rights activists argued that the board does not have the authority to dismiss petitions based on the spacing issue, and that it does not affect the content of the petition.
“We do not have the authority to dismiss this petition based on any objection to the contents of the petition,” Gurewitz said, according to the Detroit News.