Michigan Judge Blocks Enforcement of Abortion Ban to Protect “People Capable of Pregnancy”

This issue might be enough to stir people up to get Gretchen Whitmer out of office.

Sometimes I feel like abortion is the only thing that Republican voters care about at all.

AP:

A Michigan judge on Friday blocked county prosecutors from enforcing the state’s 1931 ban on abortion for the foreseeable future, after two days of witness testimony from abortion experts, providers and the state’s chief medical officer.

The ruling follows a state Court of Appeals ruling this month that county prosecutors were not covered by a May order and could enforce the prohibition following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

“The harm to the body of women and people capable of pregnancy in not issuing the injunction could not be more real, clear, present and dangerous to the court,” Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham said during his ruling Friday.

David Kallman, an attorney for two Republican county prosecutors, said an appeal is planned.

“The judge ignored all of the clear legal errors and problems in this case, it appears to me, simply because the issue is abortion,” Kallman told The Associated Press following the hearing.

Cunningham filed a restraining order against county prosecutors hours after the Aug. 1 appeals court decision and following a request from attorneys representing Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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The 1931 law in Michigan, which was triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, bans abortion in all instances except the life of the mother. The dormant ban was retroactively blocked from going into effect in May when Judge Elizabeth Gleicher issued a preliminary injunction.

I don’t know why Whitmer would even be putting herself in the middle of this. I guess she thinks it’s good for her campaign. It probably isn’t.

Women deserve the equal right to bodily autonomy. pic.twitter.com/CkLdastSyU

— Anna_P 💙Equality4Women (@anna_women) August 19, 2022

These draconian anti-women laws need to be struck down, even conservatives that I know are saying the #GOP has gone too far. As one parent said, my 13yo daughter should not have to carry a rapist’s fetus!

— Sharon (@sapw) August 19, 2022

Take personal responsibility.

— CEW (@CEW6805) August 19, 2022

Wonderful! Kill more dem babies!

— KeepAmericaFree (@KeepAmericaFre6) August 20, 2022

Crank up the killings. 😠 Shows how desperate they are to resume to cannibalism.
There was always the right way to do it, teach health/human anatomy as a way of birth control. But we’re not governed by legally elected POTUS, rather a government that wants nothing to do with us.

— 🇺🇸mikeh02176PRO-USA🦅 (@MichaelJHarris9) August 20, 2022

Democrats have no shame. Abortion is death of a human being.

— marty (@tcblues) August 20, 2022