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The Michigan Board of State Canvassers meets tomorrow, and may decide to change the language voters would see on an abortion-rights ballot initiative. The petition for the initiative gained record-breaking support earlier this summer.

Michigan medical clinics that provide reproductive services see a sharp uptick in out-of-state patients following the reversal of Roe v Wade. Muskegon Lake is glowing up. Lawn trimming goats work up north. The number of ballot signatures gathered does not necessarily correlate to voter approval. And a conversation with GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon.

The Reproductive Freedom for All campaign delivered a record-setting 753,759 signatures to the Michigan Secretary of State. This is one of the final steps of a ballot initiative that aims to make abortion a constitutional right in Michigan.

The Reproductive Freedom for All ballot initiative campaign to secure abortion rights in Michigan’s Constitution has been getting a surge of signatures and volunteers since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The initiative would let donors get a tax break for contributions to a Student Opportunity Scholarship program that could be used for tuition at nonpublic schools.

Michigan state law makes providing abortions a felony. But for nearly five decades, that law was rendered moot by Roe v. Wade. And Michigan advocates on both sides of the issue are already gearing up for a fight.

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