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A 1931 law criminalizing abortion1 in Michigan is unconstitutional, a judge rules
ANN ARBOR3, Mich. — Enforcement of Michigan's 1931 abortion ban was blocked Wednesday by a judge who replaced her temporary order with a permanent injunction.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ruled the Michigan Constitution's due process clause is expansive enough to cover reproductive rights.
"The Michigan Constitution protects the right of all pregnant people to make autonomous4 health decisions," she wrote, and later: "Exercising the right to bodily integrity means exercising the right to determine when in her life a woman will be best prepared physically5, emotionally and financially to be a mother."
Gleicher's initial temporary order pre-dated the U.S. Supreme6 Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in June.
Dr. Sarah Wallett, the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, says this means abortion rights are protected while there's still a lot of litigation pending7.
"But this does help reassure8 providers and patients who are really worried that that might not always be the case in Michigan," she told the Michigan Public Radio Network.
Michigan's dormant9 abortion law would threaten abortion providers with felony charges.
Gleicher's opinion was somewhat technical. It did not directly bar prosecutors10 from filing charges against abortion providers. Instead, she instructed Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to inform prosecutors that abortion rights remain protected. Nessel has already said she won't file charges under the 1931 law.
The distinction is meaningless, according to attorney David Kallman, who represents county prosecutors who say they are allowed to file criminal charges under the 1931 law.
"Unbelievable," he said. "Talk about a shift and a change in our constitutional form of government. I didn't realize the state of Michigan now, according to Judge Gleicher, controls and runs all 83 county prosecutors' offices in this state."
This is one of several abortion-related legal cases in play in Michigan. It could join at least three decisions that have been appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court. There's also a separate case that seeks to put an abortion rights amendment11 on the November ballot12.
The court is expected to rule this week on a challenge to the petition campaign, which gathered nearly 750,000 signatures — a record — in an effort to put a proposed reproductive rights amendment on the November ballot.
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