Posted on 09/08/2022 3:35:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down Michigan's 1931 anti-abortion law, months after suspending it, the latest development over abortion rights in a state where the issue is being argued in courtrooms and, possibly, at the ballot box.
The law, which was long dormant before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, violates the Michigan Constitution, said Judge Elizabeth Gleicher.
“A law denying safe, routine medical care not only denies women of their ability to control their bodies and their lives — it denies them of their dignity,” Gleicher of the Court of Claims wrote. “Michigan’s Constitution forbids this violation of due process.”
The decision comes as the Michigan Supreme Court is considering whether to place a proposed amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot that would add abortion rights to the state constitution. A Friday deadline is looming.
Supporters submitted more than 700,000 signatures, easily clearing the threshold. But a tie vote by the Board of State Canvassers over spacing issues on the petition has kept it off the ballot so far.
In the case handled by Gleicher, the 1931 law makes it a crime to perform an abortion unless the mother's life is in danger.
The judge said the law “compels motherhood” and prevents a woman from determining the “shape of her present and future life.”
The law “forces a pregnant woman to forgo her reproductive choices and to instead serve as `an involuntary vessel entitled to no more respect than other forms of collectively owned property,'” Gleicher wrote, quoting constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe.
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A Judge can strike down a law because it is unconstitutional.
Precisely what part of the Constitution did it violate?
Did the folks who passed this law in the first place, know anything about the Constitution?
I have a problem with legislators today who pass a law, with a wait and see attitude about if the Court will accept it. If they cared about the promise to defend the Constitution, they would never support any legislation that there was a question about it’s Constitutionality.
AP stylebook - don’t use the word abortion without the word rights attached — “AbortionRights”
This demonic activist judge doesn’t understand separation of powers and is legislating from the bench.
This should go higher.
Liberal judges just can’t help themselves. They think they are the beginning and the end of what “should” be legal or illegal in this country. In their opinion.
I live in Michigan.
WTF is a “ court of claims”?
Judge is allowing the willful killing of nascent helpless (for a time) individual humans. Judge needs to retire.
......and only roughly one half of the DNA from mommy. Baby is certainly “not” the mommies body.
I need to study who she is.
Dem voter fraud flipped everything(but the state legislature)to the dems in 2018...including the MI State Supreme Court.
I hope you can find enough to impeach her...maybe she has broken a law in some of her rulings.
Impeach is a tall order.
Dem's play to win...while Rep.'s are either complicit/lethargic...or(at best)still in the locker room looking for their jockstrap.
Her ruling will be appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court, no dount.
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