"Abortion-rights activists who spent months gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures to put an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot brought well more than the amount required to the Secretary of State’s office on Monday, and say they’re confident the petition will be swiftly certified.'
"While just over 425,000 signatures of registered Michigan voters are required to qualify for the ballot, Planned Parenthood, ACLU and the other groups behind the campaign submitted more than 753,759, and say they gathered them from every one of the state’s 83 counties."
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/11/michigan-abortion-rights-voting-00044823
"The Reproductive Freedom for All amendment proposes a new and general right to reproductive freedom, including the right to access abortions and birth control without political interference.
The language of the proposed amendment leaves the door open to regulate abortions "after fetal viability." The amendment defines that as the point when a fetus could likely survive outside the uterus "without the application of extraordinary medical measures" as determined by a health care professional. The proposed amendment, however, would bar any prohibition of abortions deemed medically necessary."
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-michigan-ballot-initiative/7722914001/
Michigan makes it rather easy for the People to pass Constitutional Amendments once they are on the ballot: " A simple majority of all votes cast on the measure is required for approval."
" Approved amendments take effect 45 days after the election date."
https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_the_initiative_process_in_Michigan
While this measure would not be necessary if the People's right to liberty and personal autonomy wasn't violated by the SCOTUS decision in Dobbs, we can all hope that this measure is swiftly approved to restore the status quo in Michigan at least.
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@no1marauder saidWill this procedure be possible in other states?
"Abortion-rights activists who spent months gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures to put an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot brought well more than the amount required to the Secretary of State’s office on Monday, and say they’re confident the petition will be swiftly certified.'
"While just over 425,000 signatures of registered Michigan voters ...[text shortened]... e can all hope that this measure is swiftly approved to restore the status quo in Michigan at least.
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@no1marauder saidIsn't there something, as they were trying with The ERA, that if a certain
I doubt that it will be as easy; the only requirement being a mere majority vote on a Constitutional amendment brought by petition is pretty rare.
amount of states ratify , it becomes the law of the land?
@jimm619 saidThis is a State Constitutional amendment.
Isn't there something, as they were trying with The ERA, that if a certain
amount of states ratify , it becomes the law of the land?
A Federal Constitutional requires approval by 2/3 of each House Congress and 3/4 of the State Legislatures. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/constitution?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlK-WBhDjARIsAO2sErSb4XMybKw56i48Hg4aGeIlBg4ypmvaMmi4EHmus0lX7iZO6avgmHoaAmB1EALw_wcB Article V
Needless to say, that is not a realistic goal for a pro-choice amendment given the present political realities.
@ron-desantis saidAnd you wonder why you can't get a date.
I hear the new license plates will say...🤔
Baby Killer State
Good for Michigan. No doubt other states will soon follow. This will lead to exactly what anti-abortionists want least: a patchwork of different laws across the nation.
I can just picture charter buses making filled-to-capacity journeys across state lines, crowds of protesters blocking the buses, shots fired and pregnant women killed ostensibly to save zygotes.
@Ron-DeSantis
So it's ok if men don't wear condoms but if a woman doesn't want to get her tubes tide shame on her.
BTW, Ron DeSantis SUCKS bigtime, as far right wing as possible without actually wearing a Nazi symbol on his hat. He HATES the idea of freedom for women but LOVES the idea of freedom for men.
He already signing in to law no abortions after 15 weeks.
@sonhouse
Well I've always said...
Her body Her choice.
I may be a Nationalist or a Republican or a Segregationist but when it comes to a person's body it is their choice.
Republicans don't blindly follow the party.
We pick and choose what we think is best.
Only Democrats blindly follow every ridiculous proposal because the party went with it.
@beowulf saidWhat like the idiot ten year old rape victim, or any number of idiot women who get the drinks spiked in a bar, or the idiot woman who trusts the pharma company that produces her pill, or the idiot boyfriend / husband who gets the faulty condom, or maybe you mean the idiot women whose long time boyfriend skips town when she announces her unexpected pregnancy.
Putting crimes aside...
Only idiots get pregnant when they don't want to be.
Call those buses the retard fleet.
Only idiots talk 💩 about 💩 they don’t know 💩 about.