Last November, Michigan voters approved Proposition 3, a constitutional amendment that, among other things, guarantees a right to abortion for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy.
Now, in a party-line vote, state Senate Democrats have voted to send a sweeping, full repeal of a 1931 law that criminalizes most abortions to Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) for signature.
Genevieve Marnon, legislative director of Right to Life of Michigan, says the impact that will have on late-term abortions "remains to be seen."
"Even under Roe vs. Wade, this 1931 law did ban late-term, post-viable abortion," she tells AFN. "In Prop. 3, it says the state can regulate abortions after viability, so we haven't seen abortion clinics starting to advertise third trimester abortions, but perhaps now with this law repealed, they will."
Though the Democrat majority repealed the 1931 law, Marnon says abortion is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue; it is about an abortion-obsessed majority.
"I don't think they care about women's health and safety," she laments. "Honestly, I think that they are willing to sacrifice a few women on the altar of the abortion agenda. As long as they can keep abortion readily available, that's unfortunately what's going to happen."
Right to Life of Michigan remains hopeful that voters in the state will wake up and urge their leaders to regulate post-viable abortion.
