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Three states where the voters will decide on reproductive rights, grassroots and all. [1]
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Date: 2022-07-20
.."I wanted to do something, but I had no political experience or really any experience in activism," said Amanda Mazur, who lives in rural northwestern Michigan. "But I thought, 'Maybe I can volunteer and just offer something tangible to the movement.'"
Michigan organizers like Mazur [with the auspices of Reproductive Freedom for All, a petition group backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan], submitted more than 750,000 signatures — a record number, they said — to state election officials in hopes of having the amendment appear on the November ballot.
If just over half those signatures are validated, Michigan voters will decide whether to amend the state's constitution to guarantee broad individual rights to "reproductive freedom" that would cover abortion, contraception, and fertility treatments. It would also prevent the state from regulating abortions later in pregnancy if the patient's "physical or mental health" is at risk,...
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