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December 14, 2012

Anti-Abortion Bill Advances as Michigan Lame-Duck Session Ends 
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Michigan lawmakers have now also approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill
considered to be among the most extreme in the country. The bill imposes
a number of burdensome and complicated requirements that critics say
could force the state’s abortion clinics to close. It also prohibits
the use of telemedicine to prescribe medication abortions in a blow to
access for rural women. The measures are part of a wave of bills in a
lame-duck session that also saw the enactment of two controversial
anti-union laws making Michigan a so-called "right-to-work" state
earlier this week.