Two Republicans on the State Canvassing Board voted once morest putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot, while two Democrats supported it.
Reproductive Freedom For All, an abortion rights advocacy group that has collected more than 730,000 signatures in favor of the measure, said it would quickly take the case to the Democratic-leaning high court.
The group staged a petition campaign ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal case that granted national constitutional protection for abortions.
The court’s decision reinstated a 1931 abortion ban in Michigan. But earlier this month, a state judge blocked county prosecutors from enforcing the ban.
Anti-abortion groups opposed the ballot measure largely on technical grounds, saying the language of the petition contained multiple errors. The ballot for the November 8 election must be finalized by September 9.
Earlier this month, Kansas readers forcefully rejected a proposed amendment to its constitution that would have allowed the state legislature to ban the proceeding, the first test of reader sentiment since the court’s ruling. supreme on abortion.
In several other states, including Kentucky and California, national abortion-rights referendums will feature on November ballots, and the issue features prominently in Michigan’s gubernatorial race.
