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Some of the GOP candidates for #MIGov would uphold an old state ban on abortion if #RoevWade is over
I imagine every Red state is digging in looking at their old abortion laws still on their books.
EMILY's List
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Some of the GOP candidates for #MIGov would uphold an old state ban on abortion if #RoevWade is overturned. @gretchenwhitmer has a detailed plan to protect access to abortion and reproductive health care. She's the candidate Michigan women can count on.
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Abortion re-emerges as wedge issue in Michigan governor's race
Jonathan Oosting, The Detroit News Published 5:53 p.m. ET July 23, 2018 | Updated 7:01 a.m. ET July 24, 2018
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Lansing Abortion is re-emerging as a wedge issue in Michigans gubernatorial election amid speculation over the fate of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that invalidated broad state laws that criminalized abortion.
Democrat hopefuls say they would fight for a womans right to choose a legal abortion if federal safeguards are overturned. Republican candidates say they would defend an old state law that would again make it a crime.
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The former state Senate minority leader on Tuesday released a plan for "protecting Roe v. Wade in Michigan by proposing to repeal the 1931 ban, restore family planning funding cut in 2013, repeal an abortion insurance law and eliminate a 24-hour waiting period for abortion. She also wants to update burdensome and ineffective sexual education laws.
Supreme Court speculation
Trump last month nominated federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Republican nominee who had voted to uphold abortion rights in some high-profile cases.
Kavanaughs stances on Roe v. Wade and judicial precedent are sure to be hot topics in his Senate confirmation hearings, but anti-abortion groups initially praised his nomination. As a candidate in 2016, Trump predicted that if he got to pick two or three justices for the court, the 1973 decision would be overturned.
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Some of the GOP candidates for #MIGov would uphold an old state ban on abortion if #RoevWade is over (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2018
OP
I'm hoping women, fed up with men ruling their lives, will migrate to a jlittle populated
notdarkyet
Jul 2018
#1
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)1. I'm hoping women, fed up with men ruling their lives, will migrate to a jlittle populated
State, where women can win state elections and make just laws. Sorry men, dont need most of you.
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)2. I like Whitmer