Michigan elections bureau recommends canvassers place abortion and voting rights amendments on ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : If it decides there are enough valid signatures, it will place abortion and election administration issues that candidates have already made central features of their campaigns on the ballot and potentially drive turnout.
39% : The Reproductive Freedom for All amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in the Michigan Constitution after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had guaranteed a national right to abortion for nearly half a century.
39% : In response to lawsuits filed by Planned Parenthood of Michigan and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan courts have already issued multiple orders barring prosecutors from enforcing a state law banning most abortions that was dormant for decades until the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe.
29% : But courts have not yet issued rulings on whether the state's abortion ban is already illegal under the Michigan Constitution as the lawsuits from Planned Parenthood and Whitmer argue.

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