Reproductive Health

Michiganders will soon no longer be required to purchase abortion coverage through a separate health insurance rider.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed bills Tuesday to roll back more abortion restrictions remaining on the books in Michigan even though it is questionable if they could be enforced under the reproductive rights amendment adopted a year ago by voters.

The lawsuit, filed one year after Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights, argues that amendment violates the U.S. Constitution.

The legislation aims to remove remaining barriers to abortion access in Michigan after voters approved a constitutional amendment a year ago, guaranteeing a right to the procedure.

Abortion-rights groups were glad for some progress toward their policy goals, but expressed disappointment they could not gain more ground.

It would repeal several laws and state rules dealing with abortion.

Michigan lawmakers joined the governor at a roundtable Monday in Grand Rapids to try to build support for abortion-access legislation.

Michigan abortion-rights advocates are sharing details about upcoming legislation they're calling the Reproductive Health Act.

A group working to put abortion protections in the Michigan Constitution turned in over 750,000 signatures today to get the amendment on the November ballot.

Michigan is one of more than a dozen states with an abortion ban on the books that was unenforceable following the 1973 Roe versus Wade decision. But that old law is not automatically back in force as a result of Friday’s US Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs versus Jackson case. The dormant Michigan law dates back to 1931 and it says abortion providers can be prosecuted -- with exceptions only to save the life of a pregnant woman.