More Out Of State Residents Coming To Michigan For Abortions

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The number of out-of-state abortions in Michigan has shot up since the overturning of Roe vs. Wade over the summer by the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s according to Paula Thornton Greear, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan.

“As you see states across the country enact these draconian abortion bans, the one thing that we know is true is those bans don’t stop people from having abortions, it only means that they need to seek essential healthcare in some place that is not their own backyard, which is tragic, quite frankly.”

Greear says the number of people coming to Michigan has doubled, and sometimes even tripled, in some weeks. Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortions has been nullified by an injunction placed on it by a judge last month. Michigan voters will decide in next month’s election whether or not to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution by approving or denying Proposal 3.