Abortion Is Legal in This State. That’s Not Stopping These Rogue Prosecutors
Abortion rights have been protected in Michigan at the state level since April, when a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, anticipating the fall of Roe, stalled enforcement of a 1931 state law that banned the practice. The three locations of Northland Family Planning Center, Chelian’s operation, hummed along under that decision, assuring visitors to its homepage that “abortion is still legal in Michigan under a court order.” But on August 1, a Michigan court ruled that injunction did not apply to county prosecutors. And one of Northland’s locations sat in a brick building on the western edge of Macomb County, where the Republican prosecutor, Peter Lucido, had for months been promising to charge providers with the felonies that law carried. “All laws of the state that have not been repealed will be enforced by the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office,” he wrote on Facebook the evening Roe fell.
Judge issues injunction to block enforcement of Michigan abortion ban
An Oakland County judge has issued an injunction that blocks enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 law that bans abortions in most cases.
Judge Jacob Cunningham said the law appears to violate rights to due process.