24 boxes crammed with 315,477 petition signatures.
That's what it might take to effect a major change in the way insurance covers abortion in Michigan.
Pro-life activists have turned in those signatures in their effort to force insurance companies and health plans to offer abortion coverage only if a customer buys a separate rider, and a woman would have to buy that rider before knowing whether she needs an abortion.
She would not be allowed to buy that coverage after getting pregnant, even in the case of rape or incest.
Kathleen Gray from the Detroit Free Press joined us to talk about this “legislative initiative.”
