Saying the word outloud like voldemort if they wanted. but without those prosecutors on board willing to enforce it, the law is a waste of paper. one legal parachute discussed in michigan. here is another. earlier this year planned parenthood and the aclu started a campaign to add the right to obtain an abortion to the michigan state constitution. their pitch is to make it a ballot initiative in november so michigan voters can decide if they want to protect abortion rights in their state. now, they would need about 425,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. the group gathering signatures said in just 24 hours, after the draft opinion leaked, the number of volunteers signed up to help gather those 425,000 signatures increased by more than 900 people. like i said, creative thinking. but could any of this actually work? joining us now is nicole wells
Stallward, the executive director of planned parenthood advocates of michigan one of the groups collecting signatures for the ballots to amend michigan s constitution to guarantee abortion rights. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. let s talk about this. you have until mid july to collect 425,000 signatures and you have a whole lot of people, more people, 900 more people than were involved in this last week. how far along in that effort? how difficult will it be to get 425,000 signatures? well, we re up to 17,000 sign-ups as of wednesday, when the news broke. so that is a signal to us that people are outraged. people believe overwhelming here in the state of michigan that abortion should be kept legal and they do not want roe v. wade to be overturned. so we are working digitally, there has been a groundswell of people stepping up to join our