“We must take the current attack on women’s rights seriously and use every tool at our disposal to counter it. This is not just a theoretical danger. This is a real and present danger. That is why I have filed this lawsuit.” Whitmer told Hunt on “The Source with Kasie Hunt.” Her office argues that the law is unconstitutional and violates the state’s legal process clause that entitles her to privacy and physical autonomy, and also violates the Michigan Equal Protection Clause. The official said that if Roe v. Wade was overthrown and the 1931 law went into effect, Michigan would have one of the most extreme abortion laws in the country. The official said the purpose of the lawsuit is to shed more light on what the state Supreme Court believes about the 1931 abortion law and the legality of abortion in Michigan in view of Roe v. Wade’s possible removal. The reason county prosecutors are named as defendants is because those prosecutors will be the ones to enforce abortion laws – including a possible ban on abortions – and represent counties that have abortion clinics, the official said. The governor plans to use her executive power to ask the state Supreme Court to recognize the right to abortion under the state constitution. Whitmer is seeking a court order to repeal the law banning abortions in the state, which the official said could come back into force if Roe vs. Wade is eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The move by the Democrat, who is running for re-election in 2022, comes before a key US Supreme Court ruling that could significantly overturn abortion rights. The country’s highest court seems ready to uphold Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The case is being considered as a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that legalized abortions nationally. The court ruling could be the most important ruling on abortion rights in decades. If the Supreme Court upholds the Mississippi Abortion Act, access to abortion could be banned or restricted to many Republican-led states across the country. Access to abortion could be a top campaign issue across the country in the months leading up to the November midterm elections. Whitmer told Hunt that if the U.S. Supreme Court undermines or overturns Roe v. Wade, “Michigan could overnight be a state with one of the most extreme laws in the books.” The Biden government has urged the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade – the landmark case that legitimizes abortions nationally before viability, which can occur at about 24 weeks gestation – and overturn the Mississippi Act. President Joe Biden said his government was “deeply committed” to a woman’s right to an abortion and that his government would “protect and defend that right”. In September, Biden denounced a Texas state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy as “extreme” and said he was “blatantly violating” Rowe against Wade. The Whitmer official said several attorney general’s attorneys have been placed behind a wall of conflict and will represent the governor, and that lawyers from the law firm WilmerHale have also offered their pro bono services to assist in representation. of the governor.
