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files suit challenging 's ban on funding for

The ACLU of MI has filed a challenge to the state's ban on , arguing the violates the to that MI voters enshrined in the state constitution in Nov 2022.


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/27/aclu-files-suit-challenging-michigans-ban-on-medicaid-funded-abortions/74232218007/

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The filing on behalf of in the Court of Claims comes 2 days after a judge in the SAME COURT blocked enforcement of other state on abortion in an order that found the state's 24-hr waiting period, requirements & a ban on performed by advance practice clinicians violated the state's voter-approved .

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The -led Legislature had attempted last yr to repeal the ban on funded by , the state's program for residents. But a no vote from one Democratic House member from Detroit foiled the effort in the lower chamber, where hold a slim 56-54 majority.

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Bonsitu Kitaba, deputy dir for the of , argued MI's ban on coverage for creates a "two-tiered system" between those who can afford for terminating a pregnancy & those who cannot. The deprivation, Kitaba said, infringes on the fundamental right to & is since Medicaid covers but not abortion.

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