A campaign to ban a controversial abortion procedure turned in 460,034 petition signatures to state elections officials Thursday, nearly 200,000 more than needed to adopt the ban without the approval of Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Although widely acknowledged as one of the most successful petition drives in recent Michigan history, enactment of the ban is far from certain.
If approved by the Secretary of State’s Office, the so-called initiative legislation will go to the Legislature, which can adopt it by majority vote and bypass a veto.
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act is the third attempt to criminalize an abortion procedure its opponents call partial-birth abortion. Two earlier measures, approved by the Legislature and signed by former Gov. John Engler, were struck down by the courts.
Late last year, Granholm vetoed the first version of the Infant Protection Act, which would require that a live fetus be protected from harm once any part of the fetus was outside the woman’s body, saying the legislation had inadequate safeguards to protect the health of the pregnant woman.
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