University of Michigan Creates Abortion-Access Task Force

The University of Michigan has created an abortion-access task force in response to the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. The task force, commissioned by university president Mary Sue Coleman, will serve to make “plans to manage in a post-Roe v. Wade environment, by determining how an abortion ban could affect clinical care, educational instruction, student health and more,” according to a report from the University Record, the administration’s official news outlet.

If the ruling in the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is the same as the forthcoming official one, abortion may become illegal in Michigan due to the presence of a 1931 ban, which became dormant after the 1973 decision. In light of a legal challenge from Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration, it is questionable whether the law will take effect again. If it does, one of the primary focuses of the task force, the report says, will be to “work to establish resources for accessing out-of-state abortions that can be provided to patients and others in the campus community,” presumably students.

The University of Michigan has created an abortion-access task force in response to the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. The task force, commissioned by university president Mary Sue Coleman, will serve to make “plans to manage in a post-Roe v. Wade environment, by determining how an abortion ban could affect clinical care, educational instruction, student health and more,” according to a report from the University Record, the administration’s official news outlet.

If the ruling in the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is the same as the forthcoming official one, abortion may become illegal in Michigan due to the presence of a 1931 ban, which became dormant after the 1973 decision. In light of a legal challenge from Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration, it is questionable whether the law will take effect again. If it does, one of the primary focuses of the task force, the report says, will be to “work to establish resources for accessing out-of-state abortions that can be provided to patients and others in the campus community,” presumably students.

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