LANSING — An abortion rights petition signed by more than 735,000 Michigan voters could be kept off the Nov. 8 ballot because of what opponents say are “60 missing spaces between what were formerly words.”
Welcome to the great “kerning” debate of 2022, the biggest fight over a seemingly tiny petition issue since a font size challenge in 2012 nearly derailed an eventually successful push to repeal the state’s emergency manager law.
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The stakes were big then, and they’re bigger now after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade.
Legal access to abortion in Michigan is tenuous, maintained only by court orders temporarily suspending enforcement of a 1931 ban set to take effect when the high court overturned nearly 50 years of protections this summer.
The Reproductive Freedom for All proposal aims to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution and overturn the 91-year-old law that makes performing an abortion punishable by up to four years in prison.
But two Republicans on the four-member Board of State Canvassers voted Wednesday to keep the measure off the ballot because of the spacing issue, […]
Like many things happening right now, it feels to me as if the GOP is doing the work to support Dems. And the majority of them haven’t a clue about that! As you mentioned to me, we’re watching a new world being born. A healing..
I sure hope you are right about our healing, Sam. We need GOOD Democrats everywhere!