Thu Sep 8, 2022 – 7:48 pm EDT
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) — A Michigan judge this week struck down the state’s 91-year-old law criminalizing abortion. The same judge preemptively blocked enforcement of the law earlier this year, just ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning the federal “right to abortion” in June.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher handed down the decision Wednesday, declaring that Michigan’s 1931 pro-life law was unconstitutional. According to the opinion, “criminalizing” the killing of unborn children would “eliminate access to a mainstay healthcare service.”
Judge Strikes Down Michigan 1931 Abortion Law
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“For 50 years, Michiganders have freely exercised the right to safely control their health and their reproductive destinies by deciding when and whether to carry a pregnancy to term,” she wrote in her opinion.
“Eliminating abortion access will force pregnant women to forgo control of the integrity of their own bodies, regardless of the effect on their health and lives,” she said.
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