since 1931 permanently unenforceable. it could be a big difference maker on the ballot. joining me now from michigan is nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. good afternoon, i m here at springfield michigan at a rally for tudor dixon, a republican running for governor and just behind me she is expected to take the stage and running against proposal 3 which is this referendum voted on to enshrine voting rights into the michigan constitution. i was speaking to tudor dixon supporters this afternoon and here is what they told me. i am pretty much against abortion and the way that pop session is worded, it is just not something i want. i want women to have equal care and i want them to have safe care, and i don t feel like proposal 3 would give the opportunity with the lingo that is written in that.
and i also believe in giving all children a chance. reporter: so you heard it here, the people that are at this rally are pretty much against proposal 3. everyone here that i ve talked to is, and they were of course taking issue with the way that the proposal is worded. so i want to put up for people what exactly voters in the state will see when they go to cast their ballots and the proposal says this, to establish new individual rights for reproductive freedom including the right to make all decisions about pregnancy, and abortion, it also allows the state to regulate abortion, in some cases, but it forbids the prosecution of individuals exercising that right. so there wouldn t be any cation to be able to prosecute a woman if she did have an abortion, and the governor running against tudor dixon, gretchen whitmer, she has made it a key part of her arguments, and protect women and needs to happen and has been behind proposal 3 and a lot of activists on the ground organizing to make
that passes and i m talking to people that they are fairly confident the proposal will pass and it is still a tight race and tudor dixon has been able to make some inroads here, so it is a tight race to watch, and definitely something we re going to keep our eye on. yamiche, is this a constitutional amendment to make a requirement, does that be an amendment to the constitution? it would enshrine the abortion rights into the state constitution and tudor dixon said if she won the governorship and if proposal 3 passes, she would respect the will of the people and she would continue to have those rights and protect those rights. thank you very much. and that is going to do it for me today. remember if you re voting on the economy, vote on it smartly. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. kson picks up our coverage next.