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Article: MICHIGAN HASTILY ENACTS PARENTAL CONSENT ABORTION LAW
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1990
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LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan Legislature yesterday
approved a vetoproof measure requiring girls 17 and younger to get
a parent's consent for abortion.
The first committee hearing started at 9 a.m.; by 1:30 p.m.,
the bill had cleared the Legislature. The final vote was barely
tallied before advocates of legal abortions talked about
challenging the parental consent requirement.
That requirement will go into effect 90 days after the last
legislative session in December. That means it would take effect
about April 1.
Lawmakers passed an identical bill earlier this year, but
Gov. James Blanchard vetoed it.
After Blanchard's veto, Right to Life of Michigan gathered
more than ...