LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made a third appeal Monday to the Michigan Supreme Court to immediately consider her lawsuit challenging the state abortion ban, asking the high court to rule definitively on the constitutionality of the law.
The Democratic governor told justices that the Friday U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe led to almost immediate "uncertainty, confusion and efforts to contract abortion access in Michigan," despite a preliminary injunction stopping enforcement of the law in the state Court of Claims.
" ... Certain county prosecutors and health providers have expressed confusion about the current legal status of abortion in Michigan," Whitmer said in a statement Monday. "This only underscores the need for the Michigan Supreme Court to act now, which is why I sent a notice to the court urging them to immediately take up my lawsuit and decide if access to abortion is protected under the Michigan Constitution."
