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Abortion providers are reassuring patients they can still come to their appointments. But they're also bracing themselves for what will happen if the state's 1931 abortion ban goes into effect.
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The latest stories about what the end of Roe v. Wade means legally, politically, and medically for Michiganders.
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BSHS Health — the system formed by the merger of Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health — has told staff they will no longer perform abortions except to save a woman's life. -
The decision to overturn federal protections for access to abortions has elicited strong reactions among people on both sides of the issue. We hear from two of them.
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The dormant Michigan law dates back to 1931 and it says abortion providers can be prosecuted -- with exceptions only to save the life of a pregnant woman.
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We talk about the decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade with a health care provider. We also hear from both an abortion-rights advocate and an abortion rights opponent. In between we feature a discussion with a chef about her bean muffins.
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President Joe Biden noted that this is the first time the court has revoked a constitutional right. Now that Roe has been overturned, "the health and life of women in this nation are now at risk."
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The short answer is: yes. Plan B and other contraceptive measures remain legal in Michigan. But language in the Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe leads some to believe that legal protections for birth control might be in trouble.
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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.
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A law passed in Michigan in 1931 that bans abortions has been unenforceable since 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade. Now that the court has overturned that decision, what does the law mean for Michigan?
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Car crash survivors continue to fight for the state's no fault law to be fixed so deep payment cuts aren't applied retroactively.
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The way in which the 10 Republican candidates for Governor of Michigan have run their campaigns can be charitably described as not ideal.
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Some of Michigan’s COVID-19 workplace policies would be repealed under legislation passed Thursday in the state Senate.
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Some of Michigan’s COVID-19 workplace policies would be repealed under legislation passed Thursday in the state Senate.
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A power failure at a pumping station on Detroit’s east side kept some pumps from working during a June 2021 rainstorm and prevented others from coming online. But according to the report, while the pumping failures likely “exacerbated” the flooding, it was the sheer amount of rainfall in such a short period of time that overwhelmed the sewer system.
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The FDA says the investigation "is in its preliminary stages," and previous investigations have not found a clear link between these other infant deaths and the product produced at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, Mich., plant.
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Projects will be located in Redford, Midtown, Woodbridge and MorningSide.
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During the fourth January 6 committee hearing on Tuesday we saw several familiar faces and learned about some new Michigan-related revelations.
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