Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of the State of Michigan
Trial court permanently enjoined enforcement of a 1931 Michigan law criminalizing all abortions except those performed to save the mother’s life, holding that the law violates abortion patients’ fundamental right to bodily integrity under the state due process clause, as well as state equal protection.
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