How Michigan’s Conservative Gerrymandering Opened the Door for Abortion Bans

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Dawn Wolfe

Dawn Wolfe

Staff Writer at Inside Philanthropy

发布日期: 2020年2月18日

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Read about how the Michigan Chamber of Commerce/GOP gerrymandering of legislative districts has made it possible to pass abortion restrictions favored by less than 10% of the state's adult population -- with another ban coming any week now.

“It’s clever but it’s deeply undemocratic,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a University of Chicago law professor, told The Washington Post in October.

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