LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher has ruled the state's 1931 abortion ban is unconstitutional as it violate.
A Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled Wednesday that a 1931 state law that bans most abortions is not enforceable. The ruling says the law violates the state constitution’s due process clause. Rick Pluta has more.
A judge in Michigan has granted a permanent injunction to block prosecutors from enforcing the state’s nearly century-old anti-abortion law.The ruling from Michigan Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher declares the 1931 law unconstitutional and aims to permanently block its enforcement.Her ruling on 7 September comes after a circuit court judge in Oakland County granted a preliminary injunction last month, arguing that the 1931 law “simply does not pass constitutional muster.”Michigan’s 1931 law, drafted decades before the landmark US Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade overturned state-level bans, was ostensibly in effect with the collapse of that 1973.