DETROIT — A mad scramble for abortion services nationwide has spiked demand for abortions in Michigan as other states have shuttered their clinics in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's rollback of Roe v. Wade.
Michigan is among the majority of states that still allow abortion since state Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a 1931 state law that bans abortion except in cases where the mother's health is endangered.
The court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruled there is no constitutional right to an abortion and handed regulatory power over abortion policy back to the states, disrupting access to abortion across the country that had been available for nearly a half-century since the Roe v. Wade decision.
