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Editorial: Michigan voters can show the country how to protect abortion rights

Abortion rights activists gather during a "Restore Roe" rally at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, on Sept. 7, 2022.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June and took away a constitutional right to an abortion that had been in place for nearly half a century, the justices in the majority said abortion laws should be left up to the states.

Reproductive rights advocates in Michigan were way ahead. Alarmed that the Supreme Court didn’t block the diabolical Texas law that bans abortions at six weeks of gestation and empowers private citizens to enforce it

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