Two Michigan prosecutors say they’ll enforce 1931 abortion ban despite injunction

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Two Republican county prosecutors in Michigan said they would consider pursuing criminal charges against doctors under a 1931 law that makes providing an abortion a felony except where ending a pregnancy is deemed necessary to save a woman's life.

alongside Right to Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference. He asserted that the case is “a sham” because Nessel and Planned Parenthood are in agreement on abortion, and he argued that the injunction does not apply to the two prosecutors because they are their own elected offices with authority to enforce laws.

Neither has been approached with an abortion case, Kallman said, but both have told him, “I’m not going to be afraid to bring the charges.”“They’re not shying away from doing it, but they’re not out running around trying to find a case, either,” Kallman said. “But look, if I were a doctor doing abortions in some of these counties other than the big counties in Michigan, I’d be thinking twice about whether to do an abortion.

Yet Nessel’s office has countered that abortion remains legal under the injunction. The Republican-controlled state legislature has also read the injunction as applying across the state, saying in court filings that the judge’s decision has left “the Attorney General and all county prosecutors” unable to enforce the ban.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan spokeswoman Ashlea Phenicie said in a statement to The Post that “there is no legal basis for county prosecutors to believe that the statewide injunction does not enjoin them.” She added that prosecutors who disregard it could face contempt-of-court proceedings.Whitmer has urged the state Supreme Court to take up her lawsuit on whether the state constitution protects abortion rights.

November’s election could also reshape the state of abortion in Michigan. Whitmer and Nessel are up for reelection, with antiabortion candidates running on the GOP side. And a group called Reproductive Freedom for All isIf enough signatures are collected by July 11, the question will go on the ballot.

 

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They first need to define 'necessary to save women's lives.' How far gone do we have to be in order to deserve medical treatment? Death's door? Death's stoop? 2 doors down from Death? Death's block? How much suffering will the GOP require from the women of this country require?

Democratic backsliding, courtesy of a crazy GOP and the politicized Supreme Court it installed.

Winning !

Next.

I want to hear what these prosecutors will say when their wives (or they if they are women) will have serious pregnancy complications threatening mother's life.

because this is a great use of resources and time. welcome to gilead.

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