Both of the board\u2019s Republicans voted against approving the ballot initiative, while both Democrats voted for it.<\/p>\n
The bipartisan panel\u2019s vote comes after abortion-rights activists spent several months<\/a> gathering more than 750,000 signatures from all 83 counties in the state \u2014 far exceeding the roughly 425,000 required to qualify. The progressive groups pushing the measure submitted the signatures<\/a> to the state Bureau of Elections in early July, and the bureau in early August recommended it be certified after finding that the vast majority of the signatures were valid.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Both of the board\u2019s Republicans voted against approving the ballot initiative, while both Democrats voted for it. The bipartisan panel\u2019s vote comes after abortion-rights activists spent several months gathering more than 750,000 signatures from all 83 counties in the state \u2014 far exceeding the roughly 425,000 required to qualify. The progressive groups pushing the measure … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}