abortion

After telling Beaumont Health-Spectrum Health System staff Friday it would restrict abortions to cases where it's deemed "necessary to preserve the life of the woman," BHSH CEO Tina Freese Decker reversed course Saturday night.

Michigan is one of more than a dozen states with an abortion ban on the books that was unenforceable following the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. But that old law is not automatically back in force as a result of Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case which overturned Roe.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.

Michigan Senate Democrats are calling for debate on abortion rights.

The sponsor of the bill says it would specifically target abortion providers and not women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. The bill would also outlaw contraceptives commonly known as “Plan B” or the “morning-after pill.”

The Michigan Legislature’s Republican leaders say they want to step in to defend the state’s dormant abortion ban if Attorney General Dana Nessel won’t.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has opened the door to abortion opponents who are trying to overturn a recent decision that suspended the state’s long-dormant ban on the procedure.

A judge has suspended Michigan’s dormant ban on abortion, saying it likely violates the state constitution.

Galvanized by the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, hundreds turned out in support of abortion rights outside the Michigan State Capitol Sunday.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday she’s still hopeful the Michigan Supreme Court will quickly take up her legal challenge to the state’s dormant abortion law that would recriminalize the procedure if the Roe v. Wade decision is reversed.