Women are gathering across Michigan to strategize how to preserve abortion rights in their state UTICA, Mich. -- At a wine bar in suburban Detroit, about a dozen women strategized about how to preserve the right to abortion in their state. This was not a typical...
Kelly Dillaha
Ballot initiative to address abortion rights in Michigan surpasses signature requirement, group says
The group needs 425,000 signatures by Monday to get on the November ballot. Kelly Dillaha, the program director of Michigan’s Red Wine and Blue, said they have collected nearly twice that amount. They are now going through the validation process. Dillaha said...
MI group working to put abortion rights on November ballot
“To not have the assistance of medicine to get, when we know how we can do that and how we can help women and families to be able to conceive babies, that part just is horrible. And then also, too, when you think about birth control, it really should be your choice...
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