MI anti-choicers lack support for abortion ban
Michigan Citizens for Life recently failed to gather enough signatures to put an anti-choice law on the November ballot.
They needed more than 317,000 signatures by today; no such luck.
The group wants to change the state constitution to legally define a person as existing from the moment of conception.If successful, the initiative could have sparked a legal challenge to the US Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion.
But thankfully, that’s not going to happen. At least not soon.
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This is the kind of thing that makes me proud to call Michigan my home state (that and the Plan First initiative that just went into effect).
It's nice to hear good news once in awhile.
I'd rather have liked to see this on the ballot, if only to "smoke the rodents out of their tunnels", if you know what I mean. This isn't South Dakota... a majority of Michiganders would probably have rejected the measure once they understood it was about abortion, and DeVos's hardline social views would have been exposed. He either would have had to pander to the pro-life base but come off looking extreme and lose moderates, or play to the middle yet deeply alienate his base. Either way, the voters of Michigan would get a better idea of where this guy stands. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen now.
Good for Michigan! At least somebody has their heads on straight.
Apparently the "No. 1 Science & Technology News Service" cannot be bothered to learn the difference between RU-486 and Plan B.