Read: Full text of Michigan’s Proposal 22-3 ‘Right to Reproductive Freedom’

Voters will resolve the way forward for abortion rights in Michigan throughout the Basic Election on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.

If Proposal 22-3 is accredited by voters, it might set up a proper to reproductive freedom in Michigan.

That features the appropriate to make selections about being pregnant, resembling prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage administration and infertility.

The state would nonetheless be allowed to ban abortion after “fetal viability,” except abortion care is required to avoid wasting the life or bodily or psychological well being of the pregnant particular person.

The state wouldn’t be allowed to penalize, prosecute or take hostile motion towards somebody primarily based on their precise, potential, perceived or alleged being pregnant outcomes. Meaning an individual can’t be prosecuted for a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion.

It could additionally prohibit the state from taking motion towards somebody for aiding or helping a pregnant particular person in exercising their proper to reproductive freedom with their voluntary consent.

Proposal 3 is supported by the ACLU of Michigan, Deliberate Parenthood Advocates of Michigan and Michigan Voices. Opposition teams embrace Proper to Life Michigan, and the Michigan Catholic Convention.

Learn the total textual content of the proposal beneath

Article 1, Part 28 Proper to Reproductive Freedom

(1) Each particular person has a elementary proper to reproductive freedom, which entails the appropriate to make and effectuate selections about all issues regarding being pregnant, together with however not restricted to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage administration, and infertility care.

A person’s proper to reproductive freedom shall not be denied, burdened, nor infringed upon except justified by a compelling state curiosity achieved by the least restrictive means.

However the above, the state might regulate the supply of abortion care after fetal viability, supplied that in no circumstance shall the state prohibit an abortion that, within the skilled judgment of an attending well being care skilled, is medically indicated to guard the life or bodily or psychological well being of the pregnant particular person.

(2) The state shall not discriminate within the safety or enforcement of this elementary proper.

(3) The state shall not penalize, prosecute, or in any other case take hostile motion towards a person primarily based on their precise, potential, perceived, or alleged being pregnant outcomes, together with however not restricted to miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Nor shall the state penalize, prosecute, or in any other case take hostile motion towards somebody for aiding or helping a pregnant particular person in exercising their proper to reproductive freedom with their voluntary consent.

(4) For the needs of this part:

A state curiosity is “compelling” solely whether it is for the restricted objective of defending the well being of a person searching for care, in keeping with accepted medical requirements of follow and evidence-based medication, and doesn’t infringe on that particular person’s autonomous decision-making. “fetal viability” means: the purpose in being pregnant when, within the skilled judgment of an attending well being care skilled and primarily based on the actual details of the case, there’s a vital probability of the fetus’s sustained survival exterior the uterus with out the appliance of extraordinary medical measures.

(5) This part shall be self-executing. Any provision of this part held invalid shall be severable from the remaining parts of this part.

(Click on right here to learn extra about Article I)

Learn the official poll wording beneath